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How popular is “Wilson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wilson” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wilson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wilson” 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 72 0.000357348 72 -100%
1881 73 0.000378851 73 -100%
1882 82 0.000370148 82 -100%
1883 67 0.000308833 67 -100%
1884 78 0.00032038 78 -100%
1885 59 0.000244962 59 -100%
1886 71 0.000278087 71 -100%
1887 52 0.000210193 52 -100%
1888 62 0.00020703 62 -100%
1889 44 0.000152278 44 -100%
1890 67 0.000222295 67 -100%
1891 58 0.000202321 58 -100%
1892 56 0.000167477 56 -100%
1893 66 0.000202938 66 -100%
1894 43 0.00012696 43 -100%
1895 71 0.000202268 71 -100%
1896 73 0.000204205 73 -100%
1897 44 0.000126817 44 -100%
1898 60 0.000157292 60 -100%
1899 59 0.000173921 59 -100%
1900 89 0.000197664 89 -100%
1901 51 0.000147479 51 -100%
1902 69 0.000178418 69 -100%
1903 63 0.000165268 63 -100%
1904 78 0.000193316 78 -100%
1905 73 0.000172201 73 -100%
1906 68 0.000158711 68 -100%
1907 83 0.000178345 83 -100%
1908 79 0.00016167 79 -100%
1909 106 0.000207346 106 -100%
1910 112 0.000189602 112 -100%
1911 129 0.000200224 129 -100%
1912 496 0.000501993 496 -100%
1913 665 0.000584816 6 659 -98%
1914 605 0.000427156 605 -100%
1915 772 0.000421299 5 767 -99%
1916 919 0.000475079 7 912 -98%
1917 927 0.000461941 6 921 -99%
1918 1381 0.00063608 1381 -100%
1919 853 0.000404218 853 -100%
1920 590 0.000260757 7 583 -98%
1921 606 0.000259584 5 601 -98%
1922 566 0.000247253 6 560 -98%
1923 540 0.00023453 8 532 -97%
1924 543 0.000227997 543 -100%
1925 445 0.000190717 445 -100%
1926 464 0.000202099 464 -100%
1927 468 0.00020178 8 460 -97%
1928 434 0.000191956 434 -100%
1929 400 0.000182468 400 -100%
1930 430 0.000193407 430 -100%
1931 339 0.000161092 339 -100%
1932 350 0.000165775 350 -100%
1933 349 0.000174548 349 -100%
1934 352 0.00016949 352 -100%
1935 341 0.000163166 341 -100%
1936 392 0.000188681 392 -100%
1937 352 0.000165206 352 -100%
1938 390 0.000176265 390 -100%
1939 401 0.000181988 401 -100%
1940 447 0.000194121 447 -100%
1941 450 0.000184697 450 -100%
1942 466 0.000170582 466 -100%
1943 461 0.000163327 461 -100%
1944 460 0.000170999 5 455 -98%
1945 398 0.000150024 398 -100%
1946 429 0.000134259 429 -100%
1947 439 0.000121866 439 -100%
1948 437 0.000126574 437 -100%
1949 377 0.000108185 377 -100%
1950 352 0.000100475 352 -100%
1951 355 0.000096369 355 -100%
1952 356 0.000093733 356 -100%
1953 359 0.000093159 359 -100%
1954 333 0.000083653 333 -100%
1955 337 0.000083934 337 -100%
1956 305 0.000073975 305 -100%
1957 355 0.000084481 355 -100%
1958 318 0.000076925 318 -100%
1959 313 0.000075277 313 -100%
1960 281 0.000067649 281 -100%
1961 272 0.000065664 272 -100%
1962 288 0.000071369 288 -100%
1963 284 0.00007175 284 -100%
1964 262 0.000067394 262 -100%
1965 251 0.000069233 251 -100%
1966 302 0.00008689 302 -100%
1967 254 0.000074818 254 -100%
1968 227 0.000067191 227 -100%
1969 240 0.000069058 240 -100%
1970 293 0.000081242 5 288 -97%
1971 270 0.000078663 270 -100%
1972 228 0.000072542 228 -100%
1973 208 0.000068945 5 203 -95%
1974 206 0.000067763 206 -100%
1975 217 0.000071869 217 -100%
1976 217 0.000071516 217 -100%
1977 213 0.000067055 213 -100%
1978 225 0.000070891 225 -100%
1979 242 0.000072738 242 -100%
1980 284 0.00008245 284 -100%
1981 266 0.000076893 7 259 -95%
1982 274 0.000078108 5 269 -96%
1983 254 0.00007334 5 249 -96%
1984 269 0.000077105 269 -100%
1985 281 0.000078731 5 276 -96%
1986 287 0.000080684 287 -100%
1987 293 0.000081262 293 -100%
1988 353 0.000095533 353 -100%
1989 323 0.000084017 323 -100%
1990 426 0.00010778 9 417 -96%
1991 443 0.000113728 7 436 -97%
1992 521 0.000135632 8 513 -97%
1993 434 0.000115111 434 -100%
1994 374 0.000100601 5 369 -97%
1995 416 0.000113594 6 410 -97%
1996 385 0.000105561 5 380 -97%
1997 380 0.000104806 380 -100%
1998 406 0.00011038 6 400 -97%
1999 405 0.000109641 405 -100%
2000 426 0.000112701 5 421 -98%
2001 473 0.000126356 10 463 -96%
2002 509 0.000136158 509 -100%
2003 468 0.000123083 468 -100%
2004 547 0.000143159 547 -100%
2005 522 0.000135766 6 516 -98%
2006 512 0.000129417 5 507 -98%
2007 478 0.000119569 5 473 -98%
2008 492 0.00012517 492 -100%
2009 488 0.000127743 488 -100%
2010 429 0.00011608 429 -100%
2011 409 0.000111816 409 -100%
2012 422 0.000115384 422 -100%
2013 397 0.000108896 6 391 -97%
2014 466 0.000125729 5 461 -98%
2015 438 0.000118349 5 433 -98%
2016 439 0.000119661 439 -100%
2017 409 0.000114367 5 404 -98%
2018 439 0.000124861 6 433 -97%
2019 417 0.000120141 417 -100%
2020 407 0.000121835 5 402 -98%
2021 376 0.000110982 6 370 -97%
2022 387 0.000114391 387 -100%
2023 404 0.00012201 404 -100%
2024 431 0.000129488 431 -100%

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