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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Windy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Windy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Windy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Windy” 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
1948 9 0.000002607 9 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 15 0.000004282 15 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 23 0.000005968 23 100%
1954 23 0.000005778 23 100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 100%
1956 38 0.000009217 38 100%
1957 33 0.000007853 33 100%
1958 54 0.000013063 54 100%
1959 52 0.000012506 52 100%
1960 62 0.000014926 62 100%
1961 52 0.000012553 52 100%
1962 61 0.000015116 61 100%
1963 59 0.000014906 59 100%
1964 65 0.00001672 65 100%
1965 69 0.000019032 69 100%
1966 83 0.00002388 83 100%
1967 161 0.000047424 161 100%
1968 159 0.000047064 159 100%
1969 178 0.000051218 178 100%
1970 220 0.000061001 220 100%
1971 249 0.000072545 249 100%
1972 270 0.000085905 270 100%
1973 242 0.000080215 242 100%
1974 276 0.00009079 270 6 96%
1975 310 0.00010267 310 100%
1976 251 0.000082721 251 100%
1977 215 0.000067685 215 100%
1978 220 0.000069316 220 100%
1979 227 0.00006823 227 100%
1980 153 0.000044419 153 100%
1981 146 0.000042204 146 100%
1982 87 0.000024801 87 100%
1983 85 0.000024543 79 6 86%
1984 78 0.000022358 78 100%
1985 60 0.000016811 60 100%
1986 48 0.000013494 48 100%
1987 56 0.000015531 56 100%
1988 45 0.000012178 45 100%
1989 30 0.000007803 30 100%
1990 52 0.000013156 52 100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 100%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 100%
1993 30 0.000007957 30 100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 100%
1998 23 0.000006253 23 100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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