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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Abbey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Abbey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Abbey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Abbey” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 100%
1946 13 0.000004068 7 6 8%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 23 0.000006244 16 7 39%
1952 15 0.000003949 15 100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 100%
1955 24 0.000005977 24 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 100%
1960 20 0.000004815 20 100%
1961 20 0.000004828 20 100%
1962 17 0.000004213 17 100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1967 18 0.000005302 18 100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 100%
1969 31 0.00000892 31 100%
1970 33 0.00000915 33 100%
1971 47 0.000013693 47 100%
1972 33 0.0000105 33 100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 100%
1974 62 0.000020395 62 100%
1975 60 0.000019872 60 100%
1976 57 0.000018785 57 100%
1977 81 0.0000255 81 100%
1978 176 0.000055453 176 100%
1979 255 0.000076646 255 100%
1980 273 0.000079257 273 100%
1981 383 0.000110714 383 100%
1982 370 0.000105474 370 100%
1983 420 0.00012127 420 100%
1984 357 0.000102329 357 100%
1985 314 0.000087977 314 100%
1986 370 0.000104018 370 100%
1987 327 0.000090692 327 100%
1988 404 0.000109336 404 100%
1989 470 0.000122254 470 100%
1990 508 0.000128527 508 100%
1991 451 0.000115782 451 100%
1992 430 0.000111942 430 100%
1993 503 0.000133412 503 100%
1994 597 0.000160585 597 100%
1995 549 0.000149912 549 100%
1996 552 0.000151349 552 100%
1997 646 0.00017817 646 100%
1998 662 0.000179979 662 100%
1999 716 0.000193835 710 6 98%
2000 660 0.000174608 660 100%
2001 688 0.000183791 688 100%
2002 600 0.000160501 600 100%
2003 625 0.000164373 625 100%
2004 511 0.000133737 505 6 98%
2005 453 0.00011782 453 100%
2006 404 0.000102118 404 100%
2007 349 0.000087301 349 100%
2008 344 0.000087517 344 100%
2009 307 0.000080363 307 100%
2010 299 0.000080904 299 100%
2011 290 0.000079283 290 100%
2012 253 0.000069175 253 100%
2013 222 0.000060894 222 100%
2014 157 0.000042359 157 100%
2015 163 0.000044043 163 100%
2016 139 0.000037888 139 100%
2017 95 0.000026565 95 100%
2018 65 0.000018487 65 100%
2019 81 0.000023337 81 100%
2020 75 0.000022451 75 100%
2021 45 0.000013282 45 100%
2022 36 0.000010641 36 100%
2023 19 0.000005738 19 100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 100%

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