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How popular is “Alford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alford” 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 14 0.000069484 14 -100%
1881 17 0.000088226 17 -100%
1882 16 0.000072224 16 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 13 -100%
1884 17 0.000069826 17 -100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 -100%
1886 17 0.000066584 17 -100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 -100%
1890 16 0.000053085 16 -100%
1891 10 0.000034883 10 -100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 -100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1897 16 0.000046115 16 -100%
1898 12 0.000031458 12 -100%
1899 19 0.000056009 19 -100%
1900 22 0.000048861 22 -100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 17 -100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 17 0.000040102 17 -100%
1906 16 0.000037344 16 -100%
1907 16 0.00003438 16 -100%
1908 29 0.000059347 29 -100%
1909 14 0.000027385 14 -100%
1910 18 0.000030472 18 -100%
1911 30 0.000046564 30 -100%
1912 40 0.000040483 40 -100%
1913 41 0.000036056 41 -100%
1914 45 0.000031772 45 -100%
1915 72 0.000039292 72 -100%
1916 68 0.000035153 68 -100%
1917 72 0.000035879 72 -100%
1918 62 0.000028557 62 -100%
1919 90 0.000042649 90 -100%
1920 83 0.000036683 83 -100%
1921 87 0.000037267 87 -100%
1922 86 0.000037568 86 -100%
1923 93 0.000040391 93 -100%
1924 90 0.00003779 5 85 -89%
1925 101 0.000043286 101 -100%
1926 86 0.000037458 86 -100%
1927 89 0.000038373 89 -100%
1928 94 0.000041576 94 -100%
1929 93 0.000042424 93 -100%
1930 106 0.000047677 106 -100%
1931 71 0.000033739 71 -100%
1932 76 0.000035997 76 -100%
1933 66 0.000033009 66 -100%
1934 84 0.000040447 84 -100%
1935 83 0.000039715 83 -100%
1936 89 0.000042838 89 -100%
1937 76 0.00003567 76 -100%
1938 68 0.000030733 68 -100%
1939 59 0.000026776 59 -100%
1940 69 0.000029965 69 -100%
1941 72 0.000029551 72 -100%
1942 87 0.000031847 87 -100%
1943 74 0.000026217 74 -100%
1944 68 0.000025278 68 -100%
1945 55 0.000020732 55 -100%
1946 69 0.000021594 69 -100%
1947 55 0.000015268 55 -100%
1948 69 0.000019985 69 -100%
1949 79 0.00002267 79 -100%
1950 64 0.000018268 64 -100%
1951 60 0.000016288 60 -100%
1952 67 0.000017641 67 -100%
1953 73 0.000018943 73 -100%
1954 78 0.000019595 78 -100%
1955 68 0.000016936 68 -100%
1956 55 0.00001334 55 -100%
1957 42 0.000009995 42 -100%
1958 39 0.000009434 39 -100%
1959 54 0.000012987 54 -100%
1960 49 0.000011796 49 -100%
1961 45 0.000010864 45 -100%
1962 34 0.000008425 34 -100%
1963 34 0.00000859 34 -100%
1964 43 0.000011061 43 -100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 -100%
1966 34 0.000009782 34 -100%
1967 32 0.000009426 32 -100%
1968 26 0.000007696 26 -100%
1969 21 0.000006043 21 -100%
1970 34 0.000009427 34 -100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 -100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 -100%
1973 32 0.000010607 32 -100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 -100%
1975 29 0.000009605 29 -100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 -100%
1977 21 0.000006611 21 -100%
1978 18 0.000005671 18 -100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 -100%
1980 24 0.000006968 24 -100%
1981 26 0.000007516 26 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 -100%
1984 21 0.000006019 21 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%

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