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How popular is “Winifred” in the USA?

Number of people named “Winifred” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Winifred” by birth year

This chart shows how “Winifred” 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 92 0.000456612 92 100%
1881 81 0.000420369 81 100%
1882 88 0.000397232 83 5 89%
1883 125 0.00057618 125 100%
1884 146 0.000599685 146 100%
1885 120 0.000498227 120 100%
1886 146 0.00057184 146 100%
1887 154 0.000622494 154 100%
1888 176 0.000587697 176 100%
1889 186 0.000643719 186 100%
1890 204 0.000676839 204 100%
1891 235 0.000819749 235 100%
1892 213 0.000637011 213 100%
1893 232 0.000713357 232 100%
1894 216 0.000637751 216 100%
1895 234 0.000666629 234 100%
1896 212 0.000593034 212 100%
1897 217 0.000625438 217 100%
1898 289 0.000757625 289 100%
1899 241 0.000710424 241 100%
1900 307 0.000681831 302 5 97%
1901 232 0.000670885 232 100%
1902 226 0.000584383 226 100%
1903 279 0.000731899 272 7 95%
1904 252 0.000624559 252 100%
1905 281 0.000662858 276 5 96%
1906 292 0.000681525 287 5 97%
1907 264 0.000567266 264 100%
1908 281 0.000575055 281 100%
1909 303 0.000592695 297 6 96%
1910 370 0.000626364 370 100%
1911 470 0.000729499 463 7 97%
1912 672 0.000680119 662 10 97%
1913 759 0.000667482 741 18 95%
1914 919 0.000648854 904 15 97%
1915 1321 0.000720902 1299 22 97%
1916 1392 0.000719597 1365 27 96%
1917 1554 0.000774386 1526 28 96%
1918 1640 0.000755374 1593 47 94%
1919 1363 0.000645897 1332 31 95%
1920 1472 0.000650567 1432 40 95%
1921 1451 0.000621545 1417 34 95%
1922 1462 0.000638663 1428 34 95%
1923 1449 0.000629321 1420 29 96%
1924 1302 0.000546689 1269 33 95%
1925 1253 0.000537007 1221 32 95%
1926 1143 0.000497843 1111 32 94%
1927 1039 0.000447969 1014 25 95%
1928 982 0.000434333 955 27 95%
1929 847 0.000386377 816 31 93%
1930 720 0.000323845 699 21 94%
1931 694 0.000329787 670 24 93%
1932 596 0.000282292 572 24 92%
1933 577 0.00028858 554 23 92%
1934 526 0.000253272 510 16 94%
1935 513 0.000245466 491 22 91%
1936 484 0.000232964 462 22 91%
1937 462 0.000216833 444 18 92%
1938 486 0.000219654 471 15 94%
1939 432 0.000196057 416 16 93%
1940 401 0.000174145 384 17 92%
1941 412 0.0001691 404 8 96%
1942 480 0.000175707 457 23 90%
1943 458 0.000162264 438 20 91%
1944 322 0.000119699 312 10 94%
1945 334 0.000125899 319 15 91%
1946 380 0.000118924 371 9 95%
1947 384 0.000106598 374 10 95%
1948 313 0.000090658 302 11 93%
1949 371 0.000106463 363 8 96%
1950 310 0.000088487 297 13 92%
1951 305 0.000082796 294 11 93%
1952 288 0.000075829 278 10 93%
1953 272 0.000070583 261 11 92%
1954 235 0.000059035 224 11 91%
1955 277 0.00006899 263 14 90%
1956 267 0.000064758 253 14 90%
1957 224 0.000053306 216 8 93%
1958 236 0.000057089 222 14 88%
1959 206 0.000049543 193 13 87%
1960 170 0.000040926 162 8 91%
1961 168 0.000040557 156 12 86%
1962 186 0.000046092 171 15 84%
1963 171 0.000043201 162 9 89%
1964 141 0.000036269 134 7 90%
1965 117 0.000032272 110 7 88%
1966 101 0.000029059 96 5 90%
1967 110 0.000032402 101 9 84%
1968 84 0.000024864 84 100%
1969 76 0.000021868 76 100%
1970 85 0.000023568 85 100%
1971 66 0.000019229 58 8 76%
1972 55 0.000017499 50 5 82%
1973 67 0.000022208 58 9 73%
1974 44 0.000014474 44 100%
1975 48 0.000015897 48 100%
1976 23 0.00000758 23 100%
1977 32 0.000010074 32 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 100%
1979 36 0.000010821 36 100%
1980 29 0.000008419 29 100%
1981 28 0.000008094 28 100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 100%
1983 21 0.000006064 21 100%
1984 24 0.000006879 24 100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 100%
1987 17 0.000004715 17 100%
1988 23 0.000006225 23 100%
1989 20 0.000005202 14 6 40%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 100%
2003 22 0.000005786 22 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 100%
2005 27 0.000007022 27 100%
2006 27 0.000006825 27 100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 100%
2008 29 0.000007378 29 100%
2009 38 0.000009947 38 100%
2010 22 0.000005953 22 100%
2011 30 0.000008202 30 100%
2012 49 0.000013398 49 100%
2013 71 0.000019475 71 100%
2014 100 0.000026981 100 100%
2015 160 0.000043233 160 100%
2016 147 0.000040069 147 100%
2017 169 0.000047257 169 100%
2018 154 0.000043801 154 100%
2019 193 0.000055605 193 100%
2020 222 0.000066456 222 100%
2021 235 0.000069364 235 100%
2022 229 0.000067689 229 100%
2023 269 0.00008124 269 100%
2024 244 0.000073306 244 100%

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