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How popular is “Wilbert” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wilbert” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Wilbert” 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 “Wilbert” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wilbert” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wilbert” 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
1880 29 0.000143932 29 -100%
1881 29 0.000150502 29 -100%
1882 20 0.00009028 20 -100%
1883 38 0.000175159 38 -100%
1884 26 0.000106793 26 -100%
1885 24 0.000099645 24 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 -100%
1887 19 0.000076801 19 -100%
1888 29 0.000096836 29 -100%
1889 25 0.000086521 25 -100%
1890 28 0.000092899 28 -100%
1891 28 0.000097672 28 -100%
1892 43 0.000128599 43 -100%
1893 32 0.000098394 32 -100%
1894 30 0.000088577 30 -100%
1895 35 0.000099709 35 -100%
1896 40 0.000111893 40 -100%
1897 40 0.000115288 40 -100%
1898 46 0.000120591 46 -100%
1899 37 0.000109069 37 -100%
1900 63 0.00013992 63 -100%
1901 52 0.000150371 52 -100%
1902 50 0.000129288 50 -100%
1903 59 0.000154774 59 -100%
1904 60 0.000148704 60 -100%
1905 71 0.000167484 71 -100%
1906 85 0.000198389 85 -100%
1907 83 0.000178345 83 -100%
1908 101 0.000206692 101 -100%
1909 98 0.000191697 98 -100%
1910 146 0.00024716 146 -100%
1911 167 0.000259205 167 -100%
1912 291 0.000294516 291 -100%
1913 405 0.000356166 405 -100%
1914 545 0.000384794 545 -100%
1915 656 0.000357995 5 651 -98%
1916 716 0.000370137 716 -100%
1917 755 0.00037623 755 -100%
1918 790 0.000363869 790 -100%
1919 814 0.000385737 5 809 -99%
1920 872 0.00038539 5 867 -99%
1921 899 0.000385092 899 -100%
1922 902 0.000394032 902 -100%
1923 855 0.000371339 8 847 -98%
1924 813 0.000341366 813 -100%
1925 811 0.000347576 7 804 -98%
1926 785 0.000341913 7 778 -98%
1927 791 0.000341043 13 778 -97%
1928 748 0.000330836 7 741 -98%
1929 694 0.000316583 10 684 -97%
1930 730 0.000328343 10 720 -97%
1931 683 0.00032456 8 675 -98%
1932 662 0.000313552 8 654 -98%
1933 627 0.000313587 627 -100%
1934 604 0.00029083 8 596 -97%
1935 542 0.000259343 542 -100%
1936 586 0.000282059 586 -100%
1937 554 0.000260012 554 -100%
1938 652 0.000294679 7 645 -98%
1939 575 0.000260955 10 565 -97%
1940 566 0.0002458 566 -100%
1941 583 0.000239285 6 577 -98%
1942 640 0.000234276 640 -100%
1943 608 0.000215407 608 -100%
1944 523 0.000194418 523 -100%
1945 537 0.000202419 537 -100%
1946 577 0.000180577 577 -100%
1947 601 0.000166837 601 -100%
1948 566 0.000163938 8 558 -97%
1949 622 0.000178491 622 -100%
1950 583 0.000166412 5 578 -98%
1951 540 0.00014659 540 -100%
1952 597 0.000157188 6 591 -98%
1953 534 0.00013857 534 -100%
1954 509 0.000127867 509 -100%
1955 510 0.000127021 510 -100%
1956 515 0.000124908 6 509 -98%
1957 496 0.000118035 496 -100%
1958 422 0.000102083 422 -100%
1959 458 0.000110149 458 -100%
1960 470 0.000113149 6 464 -97%
1961 370 0.000089322 370 -100%
1962 345 0.000085494 345 -100%
1963 346 0.000087413 346 -100%
1964 326 0.000083856 326 -100%
1965 275 0.000075853 6 269 -96%
1966 291 0.000083725 291 -100%
1967 240 0.000070694 5 235 -96%
1968 256 0.000075775 256 -100%
1969 272 0.000078266 272 -100%
1970 259 0.000071815 259 -100%
1971 204 0.000059434 6 198 -94%
1972 183 0.000058225 183 -100%
1973 177 0.00005867 177 -100%
1974 204 0.000067105 6 198 -94%
1975 160 0.000052991 160 -100%
1976 150 0.000049435 150 -100%
1977 181 0.000056981 181 -100%
1978 147 0.000046316 147 -100%
1979 158 0.00004749 158 -100%
1980 181 0.000052547 181 -100%
1981 145 0.000041915 145 -100%
1982 163 0.000046466 163 -100%
1983 136 0.000039268 136 -100%
1984 110 0.00003153 110 -100%
1985 114 0.000031941 114 -100%
1986 116 0.000032611 116 -100%
1987 112 0.000031063 112 -100%
1988 104 0.000028146 104 -100%
1989 99 0.000025751 99 -100%
1990 120 0.000030361 120 -100%
1991 104 0.000026699 104 -100%
1992 96 0.000024992 96 -100%
1993 86 0.00002281 86 -100%
1994 77 0.000020712 77 -100%
1995 81 0.000022118 81 -100%
1996 48 0.000013161 48 -100%
1997 77 0.000021237 77 -100%
1998 80 0.00002175 80 -100%
1999 55 0.00001489 55 -100%
2000 67 0.000017725 67 -100%
2001 58 0.000015494 58 -100%
2002 72 0.00001926 72 -100%
2003 59 0.000015517 59 -100%
2004 52 0.000013609 52 -100%
2005 67 0.000017426 67 -100%
2006 62 0.000015672 62 -100%
2007 60 0.000015009 60 -100%
2008 57 0.000014501 57 -100%
2009 56 0.000014659 56 -100%
2010 42 0.000011364 42 -100%
2011 42 0.000011482 42 -100%
2012 43 0.000011757 43 -100%
2013 38 0.000010423 38 -100%
2014 35 0.000009443 35 -100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 -100%
2016 37 0.000010085 37 -100%
2017 34 0.000009507 34 -100%
2018 27 0.000007679 27 -100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 26 0.000007685 26 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 -100%

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