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How popular is “Anthony” in the USA?

Number of people named “Anthony” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Anthony” by birth year

This chart shows how “Anthony” 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 130 0.000645213 130 -100%
1881 128 0.000664286 128 -100%
1882 139 0.000627446 139 -100%
1883 143 0.00065915 143 -100%
1884 179 0.000735231 179 -100%
1885 153 0.00063524 153 -100%
1886 174 0.000681508 174 -100%
1887 153 0.000618452 153 -100%
1888 193 0.000644463 193 -100%
1889 219 0.000757927 219 -100%
1890 189 0.000627072 189 -100%
1891 170 0.00059301 170 -100%
1892 255 0.000762619 255 -100%
1893 220 0.000676459 220 -100%
1894 257 0.000758806 257 -100%
1895 221 0.000629594 221 -100%
1896 281 0.000786049 5 276 -96%
1897 249 0.000717668 249 -100%
1898 325 0.000852001 325 -100%
1899 291 0.000857815 291 -100%
1900 406 0.000901705 406 -100%
1901 328 0.000948492 5 323 -97%
1902 420 0.001086021 420 -100%
1903 399 0.001046695 399 -100%
1904 422 0.001045888 422 -100%
1905 490 0.001155873 490 -100%
1906 542 0.001265022 542 -100%
1907 593 0.0012742 593 -100%
1908 690 0.001412057 690 -100%
1909 758 0.001482716 758 -100%
1910 986 0.001669175 6 980 -99%
1911 1295 0.002010002 7 1288 -99%
1912 2488 0.002518061 8 2480 -99%
1913 2789 0.002452709 8 2781 -99%
1914 3709 0.002618714 14 3695 -99%
1915 4746 0.002590009 24 4722 -99%
1916 4765 0.002463274 16 4749 -99%
1917 5046 0.002514513 19 5027 -99%
1918 5187 0.002389099 19 5168 -99%
1919 4761 0.002256136 24 4737 -99%
1920 4976 0.002199198 32 4944 -99%
1921 5262 0.002254011 23 5239 -99%
1922 5115 0.002234448 24 5091 -99%
1923 5147 0.002235415 26 5121 -99%
1924 5211 0.002188016 20 5191 -99%
1925 5066 0.002171172 25 5041 -99%
1926 5092 0.002217862 34 5058 -99%
1927 4949 0.00213378 31 4918 -99%
1928 4749 0.002100456 31 4718 -99%
1929 4782 0.002181409 49 4733 -98%
1930 4704 0.002115785 30 4674 -99%
1931 4349 0.002066634 39 4310 -98%
1932 4257 0.002016302 34 4223 -98%
1933 4000 0.002000553 26 3974 -99%
1934 3858 0.001857651 18 3840 -99%
1935 3933 0.001881908 24 3909 -99%
1936 3994 0.001922431 16 3978 -99%
1937 4363 0.002047713 24 4339 -99%
1938 4705 0.002126483 16 4689 -99%
1939 4636 0.002103981 27 4609 -99%
1940 4788 0.002079312 19 4769 -99%
1941 5258 0.00215808 19 5239 -99%
1942 6233 0.002281631 23 6210 -99%
1943 6222 0.002204383 22 6200 -99%
1944 5619 0.002088786 14 5605 -100%
1945 5696 0.002147076 10 5686 -100%
1946 6796 0.002126869 25 6771 -99%
1947 8037 0.002231061 23 8014 -99%
1948 7902 0.002288764 23 7879 -99%
1949 8471 0.002430859 20 8451 -100%
1950 8637 0.002465349 23 8614 -99%
1951 9871 0.002679614 33 9838 -99%
1952 11228 0.002956289 42 11186 -99%
1953 11729 0.003043613 35 11694 -99%
1954 13181 0.00331122 58 13123 -99%
1955 14229 0.00354389 57 14172 -99%
1956 15632 0.00379138 67 15565 -99%
1957 17125 0.004075301 66 17059 -99%
1958 17508 0.004235222 82 17426 -99%
1959 18057 0.004342721 82 17975 -99%
1960 19589 0.004715906 97 19492 -99%
1961 20326 0.004906935 122 20204 -99%
1962 20212 0.005008708 104 20108 -99%
1963 20353 0.005141984 111 20242 -99%
1964 20246 0.005207834 121 20125 -99%
1965 20440 0.005637922 111 20329 -99%
1966 20799 0.005984196 172 20627 -98%
1967 21041 0.006197832 157 20884 -99%
1968 20367 0.00602857 137 20230 -99%
1969 21062 0.006060444 158 20904 -98%
1970 21319 0.005911248 143 21176 -99%
1971 19362 0.005641025 137 19225 -99%
1972 17593 0.005597529 134 17459 -98%
1973 16560 0.005489102 145 16415 -98%
1974 16516 0.005432896 126 16390 -98%
1975 16624 0.005505741 136 16488 -98%
1976 16743 0.005517912 140 16603 -98%
1977 16950 0.005336072 146 16804 -98%
1978 16959 0.005343319 150 16809 -98%
1979 17671 0.005311392 154 17517 -98%
1980 17769 0.00515865 161 17608 -98%
1981 18706 0.005407335 132 18574 -99%
1982 19786 0.005640312 135 19651 -99%
1983 19996 0.005773619 164 19832 -98%
1984 21116 0.006052589 158 20958 -99%
1985 22298 0.006247496 199 22099 -98%
1986 22157 0.006228989 198 21959 -98%
1987 23336 0.006472129 213 23123 -98%
1988 23821 0.006446745 178 23643 -99%
1989 24547 0.006385054 124 24423 -99%
1990 25187 0.006372458 100 25087 -99%
1991 24534 0.006298416 87 24447 -99%
1992 23257 0.006054503 81 23176 -99%
1993 21883 0.00580408 94 21789 -99%
1994 21692 0.005834864 90 21602 -99%
1995 20569 0.005616638 87 20482 -99%
1996 20574 0.005641047 67 20507 -99%
1997 20074 0.005536511 41 20033 -100%
1998 19685 0.005351793 51 19634 -99%
1999 19527 0.00528633 55 19472 -99%
2000 19707 0.005213624 52 19655 -99%
2001 19777 0.005283179 40 19737 -100%
2002 19635 0.0052524 45 19590 -100%
2003 20187 0.005309129 38 20149 -100%
2004 19669 0.005147709 56 19613 -99%
2005 19412 0.005048838 27 19385 -100%
2006 19439 0.004913567 26 19413 -100%
2007 19667 0.0049196 30 19637 -100%
2008 18441 0.004691572 28 18413 -100%
2009 16351 0.00428017 26 16325 -100%
2010 15535 0.00420349 27 15508 -100%
2011 14313 0.003913017 24 14289 -100%
2012 13241 0.003620364 15 13226 -100%
2013 12308 0.003376062 15 12293 -100%
2014 11629 0.003137566 18 11611 -100%
2015 10673 0.002883884 13 10660 -100%
2016 9910 0.002701231 11 9899 -100%
2017 8881 0.002483366 9 8872 -100%
2018 8050 0.002289601 5 8045 -100%
2019 7728 0.002226491 6 7722 -100%
2020 7039 0.002107121 9 7030 -100%
2021 6792 0.002004753 5 6787 -100%
2022 6604 0.001952036 7 6597 -100%
2023 6274 0.001894784 9 6265 -100%
2024 6326 0.001900555 6326 -100%