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How popular is “Xerxes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Xerxes” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Xerxes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Xerxes” 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
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2007 9 0.000002251 9 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 -100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 -100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 -100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 -100%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 -100%

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