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How popular is “Wilkes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wilkes” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wilkes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wilkes” 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
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 30 0.000008533 30 -100%
2019 18 0.000005186 18 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 -100%
2021 21 0.000006198 21 -100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 -100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 -100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 -100%

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