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How popular is “Brockton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brockton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brockton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brockton” 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
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 -100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 -100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 -100%
1992 17 0.000004426 17 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 22 0.000005918 22 -100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 -100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 -100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 -100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 -100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 -100%
2000 31 0.000008201 31 -100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 -100%
2002 20 0.00000535 20 -100%
2003 24 0.000006312 24 -100%
2004 27 0.000007066 27 -100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 -100%
2006 28 0.000007078 28 -100%
2007 37 0.000009255 37 -100%
2008 33 0.000008396 33 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 -100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 -100%
2012 23 0.000006289 23 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 -100%
2014 16 0.000004317 16 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 -100%
2019 12 0.000003457 12 -100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%

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