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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Aaron” in the USA?

Number of people named “Aaron” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Aaron” by birth year

This chart shows how “Aaron” 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 102 0.000506244 102 -100%
1881 94 0.000487835 94 -100%
1882 85 0.00038369 85 -100%
1883 105 0.000483991 105 -100%
1884 97 0.000398421 97 -100%
1885 88 0.000365367 88 -100%
1886 86 0.000336837 86 -100%
1887 78 0.000315289 78 -100%
1888 90 0.000300527 90 -100%
1889 85 0.000294173 85 -100%
1890 96 0.000318513 96 -100%
1891 69 0.000240692 69 -100%
1892 95 0.000284113 95 -100%
1893 81 0.00024906 81 -100%
1894 79 0.000233252 79 -100%
1895 94 0.000267791 94 -100%
1896 69 0.000193016 69 -100%
1897 87 0.000250752 87 -100%
1898 89 0.000233317 89 -100%
1899 71 0.000209295 71 -100%
1900 104 0.000230979 104 -100%
1901 80 0.00023134 80 -100%
1902 78 0.00020169 78 -100%
1903 93 0.000243966 93 -100%
1904 117 0.000289974 117 -100%
1905 96 0.000226457 96 -100%
1906 96 0.000224063 96 -100%
1907 130 0.000279336 130 -100%
1908 114 0.000233296 114 -100%
1909 142 0.000277765 142 -100%
1910 145 0.000245467 145 -100%
1911 187 0.000290247 187 -100%
1912 303 0.000306661 303 -100%
1913 417 0.000366719 417 -100%
1914 490 0.000345961 5 485 -98%
1915 553 0.000301786 553 -100%
1916 588 0.000303968 5 583 -98%
1917 601 0.000299489 5 596 -98%
1918 663 0.000305374 7 656 -98%
1919 645 0.000305652 645 -100%
1920 668 0.00029523 668 -100%
1921 697 0.000298564 697 -100%
1922 705 0.000307974 6 699 -98%
1923 626 0.000271881 8 618 -97%
1924 682 0.000286361 682 -100%
1925 655 0.000280718 11 644 -97%
1926 601 0.00026177 8 593 -97%
1927 552 0.000237997 6 546 -98%
1928 561 0.000248127 561 -100%
1929 475 0.000216681 6 469 -97%
1930 505 0.000227141 6 499 -98%
1931 466 0.000221442 9 457 -96%
1932 514 0.000243453 514 -100%
1933 464 0.000232064 464 -100%
1934 477 0.000229679 477 -100%
1935 465 0.000222499 5 460 -98%
1936 443 0.000213229 443 -100%
1937 470 0.000220588 5 465 -98%
1938 482 0.000217846 5 477 -98%
1939 471 0.000213756 471 -100%
1940 514 0.000223218 514 -100%
1941 562 0.000230666 562 -100%
1942 575 0.000210483 6 569 -98%
1943 559 0.000198047 8 551 -97%
1944 513 0.000190701 7 506 -97%
1945 484 0.000182441 484 -100%
1946 578 0.00018089 578 -100%
1947 689 0.000191266 8 681 -98%
1948 709 0.000205357 8 701 -98%
1949 801 0.000229857 7 794 -98%
1950 805 0.00022978 7 798 -98%
1951 876 0.000237802 11 865 -97%
1952 945 0.000248815 6 939 -99%
1953 908 0.000235621 8 900 -98%
1954 979 0.000245936 7 972 -99%
1955 1110 0.000276458 11 1099 -98%
1956 1291 0.000313119 14 1277 -98%
1957 1360 0.000323644 11 1349 -98%
1958 1402 0.000339147 1402 -100%
1959 1554 0.000373738 13 1541 -98%
1960 1789 0.000430688 20 1769 -98%
1961 1897 0.000457958 10 1887 -99%
1962 2023 0.000501317 12 2011 -99%
1963 2091 0.00052827 12 2079 -99%
1964 2410 0.000619919 29 2381 -98%
1965 2439 0.000672744 28 2411 -98%
1966 2617 0.000752952 19 2598 -99%
1967 2930 0.00086306 19 2911 -99%
1968 3450 0.001021189 23 3427 -99%
1969 4640 0.001335128 43 4597 -98%
1970 6653 0.001844718 70 6583 -98%
1971 8471 0.002467985 68 8403 -98%
1972 7923 0.002520845 60 7863 -98%
1973 9305 0.003084305 74 9231 -98%
1974 10597 0.003485856 89 10508 -98%
1975 10670 0.003533822 122 10548 -98%
1976 11499 0.003789671 154 11345 -97%
1977 11777 0.003707547 146 11631 -98%
1978 12453 0.003923601 155 12298 -98%
1979 13219 0.003973249 144 13075 -98%
1980 13342 0.003873415 173 13169 -97%
1981 14845 0.004291238 153 14692 -98%
1982 14559 0.004150273 152 14407 -98%
1983 14633 0.004225113 172 14461 -98%
1984 13539 0.003880754 135 13404 -98%
1985 13277 0.003719975 139 13138 -98%
1986 12825 0.003605488 134 12691 -98%
1987 12827 0.003557508 143 12684 -98%
1988 14540 0.003935002 131 14409 -98%
1989 15410 0.004008379 99 15311 -99%
1990 14639 0.003703753 84 14555 -99%
1991 14344 0.00368242 102 14242 -99%
1992 14601 0.003801084 91 14510 -99%
1993 13945 0.003698665 108 13837 -98%
1994 14490 0.00389762 105 14385 -99%
1995 13376 0.003652494 85 13291 -99%
1996 12051 0.003304183 80 11971 -99%
1997 11238 0.003099497 68 11170 -99%
1998 10611 0.002884829 59 10552 -99%
1999 9909 0.002682555 50 9859 -99%
2000 9596 0.002538689 35 9561 -99%
2001 9589 0.002561582 37 9552 -99%
2002 9050 0.002420892 42 9008 -99%
2003 8912 0.002343833 38 8874 -99%
2004 8456 0.002213078 57 8399 -99%
2005 7835 0.002037793 25 7810 -99%
2006 8333 0.00210632 24 8309 -99%
2007 8970 0.0022438 23 8947 -99%
2008 8574 0.00218131 29 8545 -99%
2009 8015 0.002098071 32 7983 -99%
2010 7491 0.002026929 23 7468 -99%
2011 7644 0.002089785 21 7623 -99%
2012 7564 0.002068155 21 7543 -99%
2013 7330 0.002010606 11 7319 -100%
2014 7435 0.002006003 24 7411 -99%
2015 7196 0.001944386 20 7176 -99%
2016 7198 0.001962004 23 7175 -99%
2017 7238 0.002023939 20 7218 -99%
2018 6009 0.001709094 15 5994 -100%
2019 5564 0.001603027 20 5544 -99%
2020 5107 0.001528778 9 5098 -100%
2021 4867 0.001436562 16 4851 -99%
2022 4535 0.001340473 11 4524 -100%
2023 4578 0.001382582 5 4573 -100%
2024 4232 0.001271443 7 4225 -100%

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