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How popular is “Adrian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Adrian” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Adrian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Adrian” 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 18 0.000089337 18 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 18 0.000081252 18 -100%
1883 14 0.000064532 14 -100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 12 0.000049823 12 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 -100%
1887 13 0.000052548 13 -100%
1888 19 0.000063445 19 -100%
1889 16 0.000055374 16 -100%
1890 17 0.000056403 17 -100%
1891 16 0.000055813 16 -100%
1892 18 0.000053832 18 -100%
1893 13 0.000039973 13 -100%
1894 18 0.000053146 18 -100%
1895 18 0.000051279 18 -100%
1896 22 0.000061541 22 -100%
1897 27 0.000077819 27 -100%
1898 17 0.000044566 17 -100%
1899 30 0.000088435 30 -100%
1900 27 0.000059966 27 -100%
1901 29 0.000083861 29 -100%
1902 26 0.00006723 26 -100%
1903 23 0.000060336 23 -100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 -100%
1905 33 0.000077845 33 -100%
1906 34 0.000079356 34 -100%
1907 31 0.000066611 31 -100%
1908 41 0.000083905 41 -100%
1909 38 0.000074331 38 -100%
1910 42 0.000071101 42 -100%
1911 62 0.000096232 7 55 -77%
1912 138 0.000139667 8 130 -88%
1913 164 0.000144225 9 155 -89%
1914 192 0.00013556 18 174 -81%
1915 242 0.000132065 11 231 -91%
1916 253 0.000130789 11 242 -91%
1917 287 0.000143017 14 273 -90%
1918 337 0.00015522 12 325 -93%
1919 295 0.000139794 21 274 -86%
1920 292 0.000129053 8 284 -95%
1921 295 0.000126365 12 283 -92%
1922 289 0.000126247 14 275 -90%
1923 348 0.000151141 8 340 -95%
1924 349 0.00014654 16 333 -91%
1925 284 0.000121716 17 267 -88%
1926 299 0.000130232 19 280 -87%
1927 235 0.000101321 14 221 -88%
1928 242 0.000107035 12 230 -90%
1929 242 0.000110393 14 228 -88%
1930 221 0.000099402 16 205 -86%
1931 233 0.000110721 19 214 -84%
1932 224 0.000106096 14 210 -88%
1933 210 0.000105029 15 195 -86%
1934 233 0.000112191 28 205 -76%
1935 234 0.000111967 23 211 -80%
1936 243 0.000116963 26 217 -79%
1937 248 0.000116395 24 224 -81%
1938 276 0.000124742 29 247 -79%
1939 270 0.000122536 22 248 -84%
1940 266 0.000115517 29 237 -78%
1941 295 0.000121079 35 260 -76%
1942 277 0.000101398 40 237 -71%
1943 258 0.000091406 36 222 -72%
1944 281 0.000104458 40 241 -72%
1945 273 0.000102906 42 231 -69%
1946 338 0.00010578 48 290 -72%
1947 378 0.000104932 76 302 -60%
1948 371 0.000107458 66 305 -64%
1949 415 0.000119089 101 314 -51%
1950 400 0.000114176 102 298 -49%
1951 454 0.000123244 96 358 -58%
1952 465 0.000122433 97 368 -58%
1953 491 0.000127412 87 404 -65%
1954 462 0.00011606 95 367 -59%
1955 521 0.000129761 90 431 -65%
1956 548 0.000132912 107 441 -61%
1957 567 0.000134931 104 463 -63%
1958 541 0.000130869 98 443 -64%
1959 593 0.000142617 109 484 -63%
1960 662 0.000159372 106 556 -68%
1961 746 0.000180093 112 634 -70%
1962 847 0.000209894 145 702 -66%
1963 774 0.000195543 121 653 -69%
1964 944 0.000242823 160 784 -66%
1965 888 0.000244935 116 772 -74%
1966 915 0.00026326 159 756 -65%
1967 1045 0.000307815 232 813 -56%
1968 1188 0.000351644 230 958 -61%
1969 1244 0.000357952 200 1044 -68%
1970 1509 0.00041841 214 1295 -72%
1971 1737 0.000506067 230 1507 -74%
1972 1919 0.000610564 241 1678 -75%
1973 1811 0.000600288 199 1612 -78%
1974 2011 0.000661513 194 1817 -81%
1975 2165 0.000717031 212 1953 -80%
1976 2326 0.000766569 208 2118 -82%
1977 2536 0.000798364 274 2262 -78%
1978 2621 0.000825806 315 2306 -76%
1979 2713 0.000815449 348 2365 -74%
1980 2738 0.000794889 346 2392 -75%
1981 2785 0.000805059 317 2468 -77%
1982 2924 0.000833532 409 2515 -72%
1983 3029 0.00087459 479 2550 -68%
1984 3116 0.000893155 459 2657 -71%
1985 3520 0.00098624 388 3132 -78%
1986 3248 0.000913109 305 2943 -81%
1987 3201 0.000887782 355 2846 -78%
1988 3605 0.000975631 385 3220 -79%
1989 3722 0.00096815 304 3418 -84%
1990 4376 0.001107153 376 4000 -83%
1991 4250 0.001091068 329 3921 -85%
1992 4166 0.001084536 307 3859 -85%
1993 4079 0.001081883 325 3754 -84%
1994 4055 0.001090742 241 3814 -88%
1995 4140 0.001130482 229 3911 -89%
1996 4324 0.001185569 215 4109 -90%
1997 4346 0.001198649 230 4116 -89%
1998 5675 0.001542871 246 5429 -91%
1999 5243 0.00141938 176 5067 -93%
2000 5553 0.001469085 212 5341 -92%
2001 5613 0.001499443 189 5424 -93%
2002 5881 0.001573179 197 5684 -93%
2003 6281 0.001651887 171 6110 -95%
2004 6310 0.001651433 170 6140 -95%
2005 6895 0.00179331 169 6726 -95%
2006 7562 0.001911436 179 7383 -95%
2007 7923 0.001981898 181 7742 -95%
2008 8099 0.002060466 162 7937 -96%
2009 7793 0.002039959 160 7633 -96%
2010 7572 0.002048846 163 7409 -96%
2011 7513 0.002053971 164 7349 -96%
2012 7084 0.001936913 133 6951 -96%
2013 6980 0.001914602 126 6854 -96%
2014 6811 0.001837644 105 6706 -97%
2015 6620 0.001788748 84 6536 -97%
2016 6444 0.001756481 108 6336 -97%
2017 6347 0.001774791 114 6233 -96%
2018 5895 0.00167667 79 5816 -97%
2019 5868 0.001690612 84 5784 -97%
2020 5380 0.0016105 64 5316 -98%
2021 5218 0.001540165 75 5143 -97%
2022 5106 0.001509251 62 5044 -98%
2023 4732 0.001429091 70 4662 -97%
2024 4675 0.001404536 58 4617 -98%

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