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How popular is “Whittaker” in the USA?

Number of people named “Whittaker” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Whittaker” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Whittaker” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Whittaker” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Whittaker” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Whittaker” by birth year

This chart shows how “Whittaker” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 -100%
2013 21 0.00000576 21 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 -100%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 -100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 25 0.000007203 25 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 25 0.000007379 25 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 26 0.000007852 26 -100%
2024 25 0.000007511 25 -100%

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