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How popular is “Wiley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wiley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wiley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wiley” 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 78 0.000387128 78 -100%
1881 76 0.00039442 76 -100%
1882 92 0.000415288 92 -100%
1883 72 0.00033188 72 -100%
1884 80 0.000328595 80 -100%
1885 76 0.000315544 76 -100%
1886 49 0.000191919 49 -100%
1887 66 0.000266783 66 -100%
1888 64 0.000213708 64 -100%
1889 73 0.000252642 73 -100%
1890 60 0.00019907 60 -100%
1891 51 0.000177903 51 -100%
1892 69 0.000206356 69 -100%
1893 50 0.000153741 50 -100%
1894 63 0.000186011 63 -100%
1895 61 0.000173779 61 -100%
1896 62 0.000173434 62 -100%
1897 59 0.00017005 59 -100%
1898 51 0.000133699 51 -100%
1899 50 0.000147391 50 -100%
1900 61 0.000135478 61 -100%
1901 64 0.000185072 64 -100%
1902 57 0.000147389 57 -100%
1903 52 0.000136411 52 -100%
1904 61 0.000151183 61 -100%
1905 52 0.000122664 52 -100%
1906 46 0.000107363 46 -100%
1907 58 0.000124627 58 -100%
1908 71 0.000145299 71 -100%
1909 68 0.000133014 68 -100%
1910 73 0.00012358 73 -100%
1911 74 0.000114857 74 -100%
1912 112 0.000113353 112 -100%
1913 156 0.00013719 156 -100%
1914 143 0.000100964 143 -100%
1915 212 0.000115694 212 -100%
1916 177 0.0000915 177 -100%
1917 255 0.000127071 255 -100%
1918 240 0.000110542 240 -100%
1919 234 0.000110888 234 -100%
1920 263 0.000116236 263 -100%
1921 309 0.000132362 5 304 -97%
1922 283 0.000123626 6 277 -96%
1923 290 0.000125951 290 -100%
1924 238 0.000099932 238 -100%
1925 245 0.000105001 245 -100%
1926 267 0.000116294 9 258 -93%
1927 253 0.000109082 253 -100%
1928 269 0.000118977 6 263 -96%
1929 230 0.000104919 230 -100%
1930 212 0.000095354 212 -100%
1931 227 0.00010787 227 -100%
1932 238 0.000112727 5 233 -96%
1933 216 0.00010803 216 -100%
1934 224 0.000107857 224 -100%
1935 286 0.000136849 286 -100%
1936 263 0.00012659 6 257 -95%
1937 222 0.000104193 222 -100%
1938 235 0.000106211 235 -100%
1939 208 0.000094398 208 -100%
1940 220 0.000095541 7 213 -94%
1941 222 0.000091117 222 -100%
1942 211 0.000077238 5 206 -95%
1943 225 0.000079715 225 -100%
1944 240 0.000089217 240 -100%
1945 193 0.00007275 193 -100%
1946 186 0.00005821 186 -100%
1947 229 0.00006357 229 -100%
1948 265 0.000076756 5 260 -96%
1949 205 0.000058827 205 -100%
1950 211 0.000060228 5 206 -95%
1951 176 0.000047778 176 -100%
1952 191 0.00005029 191 -100%
1953 198 0.00005138 7 191 -93%
1954 166 0.000041701 166 -100%
1955 176 0.000043835 5 171 -94%
1956 180 0.000043657 180 -100%
1957 168 0.00003998 168 -100%
1958 128 0.000030963 128 -100%
1959 158 0.000037999 158 -100%
1960 136 0.000032741 136 -100%
1961 119 0.000028728 119 -100%
1962 111 0.000027507 111 -100%
1963 125 0.00003158 125 -100%
1964 118 0.000030353 118 -100%
1965 125 0.000034478 125 -100%
1966 111 0.000031936 111 -100%
1967 116 0.000034169 116 -100%
1968 94 0.000027824 94 -100%
1969 92 0.000026472 92 -100%
1970 95 0.000026341 95 -100%
1971 95 0.000027678 95 -100%
1972 78 0.000024817 78 -100%
1973 68 0.00002254 68 -100%
1974 68 0.000022368 68 -100%
1975 49 0.000016228 49 -100%
1976 66 0.000021751 66 -100%
1977 64 0.000020148 64 -100%
1978 56 0.000017644 56 -100%
1979 61 0.000018335 61 -100%
1980 64 0.00001858 64 -100%
1981 53 0.000015321 53 -100%
1982 64 0.000018244 64 -100%
1983 38 0.000010972 38 -100%
1984 52 0.000014905 52 -100%
1985 63 0.000017651 63 -100%
1986 43 0.000012089 43 -100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 -100%
1988 54 0.000014614 54 -100%
1989 56 0.000014566 56 -100%
1990 60 0.00001518 60 -100%
1991 66 0.000016944 66 -100%
1992 51 0.000013277 51 -100%
1993 57 0.000015118 5 52 -82%
1994 45 0.000012104 45 -100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 -100%
1996 56 0.000015354 56 -100%
1997 60 0.000016548 6 54 -80%
1998 57 0.000015497 57 -100%
1999 48 0.000012995 48 -100%
2000 54 0.000014286 54 -100%
2001 68 0.000018165 7 61 -79%
2002 66 0.000017655 66 -100%
2003 83 0.000021829 6 77 -86%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 96 0.000024968 9 87 -81%
2006 106 0.000026793 5 101 -91%
2007 77 0.000019261 77 -100%
2008 105 0.000026713 7 98 -87%
2009 106 0.000027747 7 99 -87%
2010 103 0.00002787 103 -100%
2011 96 0.000026245 9 87 -81%
2012 123 0.000033631 12 111 -80%
2013 133 0.000036482 16 117 -76%
2014 130 0.000035075 10 120 -85%
2015 150 0.000040531 15 135 -80%
2016 134 0.000036525 8 126 -88%
2017 143 0.000039987 21 122 -71%
2018 132 0.000037544 11 121 -83%
2019 173 0.000049843 16 157 -82%
2020 187 0.000055978 21 166 -78%
2021 222 0.000065526 25 197 -77%
2022 208 0.000061481 29 179 -72%
2023 218 0.000065837 32 186 -71%
2024 203 0.000060988 23 180 -77%

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