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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Wolfe” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wolfe” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Wolfe” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wolfe” 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
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 -100%
2017 33 0.000009228 33 -100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 -100%
2019 44 0.000012677 44 -100%
2020 49 0.000014668 49 -100%
2021 40 0.000011807 40 -100%
2022 53 0.000015666 53 -100%
2023 43 0.000012986 43 -100%
2024 47 0.00001412 47 -100%

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