Name Trends

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How popular is “Willem” in the USA?

Number of people named “Willem” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Willem” by birth year

This chart shows how “Willem” 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 8 0.000004136 8 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 12 0.000003974 12 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 -100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 -100%
1991 25 0.000006418 25 -100%
1992 30 0.00000781 30 -100%
1993 40 0.000010609 40 -100%
1994 44 0.000011835 44 -100%
1995 35 0.000009557 35 -100%
1996 46 0.000012612 46 -100%
1997 53 0.000014618 53 -100%
1998 68 0.000018487 68 -100%
1999 75 0.000020304 75 -100%
2000 96 0.000025397 96 -100%
2001 79 0.000021104 79 -100%
2002 109 0.000029158 109 -100%
2003 122 0.000032086 122 -100%
2004 112 0.000029312 112 -100%
2005 107 0.000027829 107 -100%
2006 103 0.000026035 103 -100%
2007 105 0.000026265 105 -100%
2008 98 0.000024932 98 -100%
2009 71 0.000018586 71 -100%
2010 83 0.000022458 83 -100%
2011 74 0.000020231 74 -100%
2012 82 0.000022421 82 -100%
2013 86 0.00002359 86 -100%
2014 87 0.000023473 87 -100%
2015 67 0.000018104 67 -100%
2016 70 0.00001908 70 -100%
2017 56 0.000015659 56 -100%
2018 62 0.000017634 62 -100%
2019 76 0.000021896 76 -100%
2020 60 0.000017961 60 -100%
2021 75 0.000022137 75 -100%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 -100%
2023 50 0.0000151 50 -100%
2024 50 0.000015022 50 -100%

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