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How popular is “Alfred” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alfred” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alfred” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alfred” 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 469 0.002327728 469 -100%
1881 466 0.002418417 466 -100%
1882 523 0.002360822 523 -100%
1883 457 0.002106515 457 -100%
1884 520 0.002135866 520 -100%
1885 446 0.001851744 446 -100%
1886 480 0.001880023 480 -100%
1887 468 0.001891735 468 -100%
1888 536 0.001789805 536 -100%
1889 472 0.001633523 472 -100%
1890 549 0.001821494 549 -100%
1891 499 0.001740659 499 -100%
1892 542 0.001620939 542 -100%
1893 530 0.001629651 530 -100%
1894 521 0.00153828 521 -100%
1895 551 0.001569711 551 -100%
1896 527 0.001474192 527 -100%
1897 513 0.001478569 513 -100%
1898 651 0.001706623 6 645 -98%
1899 503 0.001482752 7 496 -97%
1900 640 0.001421407 640 -100%
1901 506 0.001463223 506 -100%
1902 597 0.001543701 7 590 -98%
1903 557 0.001461175 557 -100%
1904 607 0.001504393 7 600 -98%
1905 591 0.001394124 591 -100%
1906 637 0.001486751 5 632 -98%
1907 743 0.00159651 5 738 -99%
1908 739 0.001512333 739 -100%
1909 763 0.001492496 763 -100%
1910 927 0.001569295 5 922 -99%
1911 1163 0.001805121 5 1158 -99%
1912 2224 0.002250871 14 2210 -99%
1913 2588 0.002275945 11 2577 -99%
1914 3362 0.002373717 15 3347 -99%
1915 4246 0.002317147 15 4231 -99%
1916 4294 0.00221979 16 4278 -99%
1917 4446 0.002215523 22 4424 -99%
1918 4890 0.002252303 17 4873 -99%
1919 4643 0.002200218 28 4615 -99%
1920 5031 0.002223506 25 5006 -99%
1921 4954 0.002122077 29 4925 -99%
1922 4856 0.002121306 23 4833 -99%
1923 5025 0.002182428 20 5005 -99%
1924 4954 0.002080105 25 4929 -99%
1925 4826 0.002068314 30 4796 -99%
1926 4759 0.002072821 33 4726 -99%
1927 4795 0.002067382 39 4756 -98%
1928 6291 0.002782474 39 6252 -99%
1929 4965 0.002264888 37 4928 -99%
1930 4595 0.002066759 37 4558 -98%
1931 3989 0.001895563 40 3949 -98%
1932 3920 0.001856684 21 3899 -99%
1933 3287 0.001643955 19 3268 -99%
1934 3175 0.001528783 16 3159 -99%
1935 3142 0.001503421 14 3128 -99%
1936 3269 0.001573467 17 3252 -99%
1937 3197 0.001500467 16 3181 -99%
1938 3027 0.00136809 19 3008 -99%
1939 3005 0.001363775 15 2990 -99%
1940 3076 0.001335832 14 3062 -99%
1941 3072 0.001260864 20 3052 -99%
1942 3420 0.001251914 12 3408 -99%
1943 3458 0.001225129 13 3445 -99%
1944 3062 0.001138257 15 3047 -99%
1945 2903 0.00109427 9 2894 -99%
1946 3246 0.001015865 8 3238 -100%
1947 3433 0.000952996 16 3417 -99%
1948 3261 0.000944528 16 3245 -99%
1949 3203 0.000919141 14 3189 -99%
1950 3248 0.00092711 13 3235 -99%
1951 3221 0.000874383 18 3203 -99%
1952 3140 0.00082675 6 3134 -100%
1953 3147 0.00081663 15 3132 -99%
1954 3060 0.000768707 16 3044 -99%
1955 2986 0.000743696 6 2980 -100%
1956 2961 0.00071816 15 2946 -99%
1957 2835 0.000674656 13 2822 -99%
1958 2727 0.000659667 15 2712 -99%
1959 2564 0.000616644 21 2543 -98%
1960 2425 0.000583801 18 2407 -99%
1961 2302 0.00055573 21 2281 -98%
1962 2142 0.000530806 13 2129 -99%
1963 1998 0.000504775 11 1987 -99%
1964 1979 0.000509054 16 1963 -98%
1965 1664 0.000458978 9 1655 -99%
1966 1621 0.000466387 13 1608 -98%
1967 1643 0.000483962 10 1633 -99%
1968 1505 0.000445475 11 1494 -99%
1969 1510 0.000434492 14 1496 -98%
1970 1430 0.000396505 12 1418 -98%
1971 1385 0.000403513 14 1371 -98%
1972 1177 0.000374484 14 1163 -98%
1973 1086 0.000359974 11 1075 -98%
1974 989 0.000325329 16 973 -97%
1975 955 0.000316289 5 950 -99%
1976 911 0.000300234 9 902 -98%
1977 957 0.000301276 9 948 -98%
1978 909 0.000286401 14 895 -97%
1979 847 0.000254584 11 836 -97%
1980 872 0.000253157 8 864 -98%
1981 823 0.000237904 8 815 -98%
1982 840 0.000239455 6 834 -99%
1983 817 0.0002359 9 808 -98%
1984 748 0.000214403 748 -100%
1985 675 0.000189123 675 -100%
1986 683 0.000192012 11 672 -97%
1987 689 0.000191091 7 682 -98%
1988 721 0.000195126 721 -100%
1989 642 0.000166994 8 634 -98%
1990 643 0.000162683 643 -100%
1991 582 0.000149412 5 577 -98%
1992 571 0.000148649 571 -100%
1993 524 0.000138982 524 -100%
1994 458 0.000123196 5 453 -98%
1995 449 0.000122605 449 -100%
1996 423 0.00011598 423 -100%
1997 378 0.000104254 378 -100%
1998 372 0.000101136 372 -100%
1999 338 0.000091503 338 -100%
2000 350 0.000092595 350 -100%
2001 345 0.000092162 345 -100%
2002 284 0.000075971 284 -100%
2003 274 0.000072061 274 -100%
2004 267 0.000069878 267 -100%
2005 280 0.000072825 280 -100%
2006 282 0.000071281 282 -100%
2007 301 0.000075294 301 -100%
2008 278 0.000070726 278 -100%
2009 262 0.000068583 262 -100%
2010 225 0.000060881 225 -100%
2011 219 0.000059872 219 -100%
2012 212 0.000057965 212 -100%
2013 208 0.000057054 208 -100%
2014 288 0.000077704 288 -100%
2015 232 0.000062687 232 -100%
2016 266 0.000072505 266 -100%
2017 252 0.000070466 252 -100%
2018 254 0.000072243 254 -100%
2019 286 0.000082399 286 -100%
2020 250 0.000074837 250 -100%
2021 254 0.000074972 254 -100%
2022 289 0.000085424 289 -100%
2023 245 0.000073991 245 -100%
2024 293 0.000088028 293 -100%

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