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How popular is “Bristol” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bristol” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bristol” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bristol” 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
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 13 0.000003726 8 5 23%
1985 25 0.000007005 20 5 60%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 22 0.000006102 17 5 55%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 100%
1990 20 0.00000506 13 7 30%
1991 24 0.000006161 19 5 58%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 12 9 14%
1994 19 0.000005111 14 5 47%
1995 18 0.000004915 13 5 44%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 19 0.00000524 11 8 16%
1998 30 0.000008156 22 8 47%
1999 24 0.000006497 16 8 33%
2000 27 0.000007143 15 12 11%
2001 31 0.000008281 19 12 23%
2002 45 0.000012038 31 14 38%
2003 47 0.000012361 26 21 11%
2004 47 0.000012301 31 16 32%
2005 40 0.000010404 24 16 20%
2006 52 0.000013144 30 22 15%
2007 57 0.000014258 31 26 9%
2008 88 0.000022388 65 23 48%
2009 478 0.000125125 438 40 83%
2010 544 0.000147197 517 27 90%
2011 731 0.000199847 719 12 97%
2012 724 0.000197957 718 6 98%
2013 738 0.000202432 726 12 97%
2014 775 0.000209099 755 20 95%
2015 717 0.000193736 705 12 97%
2016 605 0.000164909 590 15 95%
2017 657 0.000183715 638 19 94%
2018 630 0.000179186 609 21 93%
2019 801 0.000230774 788 13 97%
2020 636 0.000190386 621 15 95%
2021 706 0.000208386 691 15 96%
2022 617 0.000182375 609 8 97%
2023 586 0.000176975 574 12 96%
2024 471 0.000141505 463 8 97%

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