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How popular is “Willson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Willson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Willson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Willson” 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
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 -100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 -100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 -100%

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