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How popular is “Buddy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Buddy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Buddy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Buddy” 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
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 15 0.000038786 15 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1904 11 0.000027262 11 -100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 -100%
1906 15 0.00003501 15 -100%
1907 18 0.000038677 18 -100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 -100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 -100%
1910 40 0.000067715 40 -100%
1911 16 0.000024834 16 -100%
1912 34 0.000034411 34 -100%
1913 51 0.000044851 51 -100%
1914 67 0.000047305 67 -100%
1915 64 0.000034926 64 -100%
1916 69 0.00003567 69 -100%
1917 72 0.000035879 72 -100%
1918 97 0.000044678 97 -100%
1919 94 0.000044545 94 -100%
1920 103 0.000045522 103 -100%
1921 112 0.000047976 112 -100%
1922 126 0.000055042 126 -100%
1923 130 0.000056461 130 -100%
1924 177 0.000074319 177 -100%
1925 178 0.000076287 6 172 -93%
1926 226 0.000098436 226 -100%
1927 260 0.0001121 260 -100%
1928 257 0.00011367 6 251 -95%
1929 355 0.000161941 355 -100%
1930 437 0.000196556 437 -100%
1931 464 0.000220492 464 -100%
1932 467 0.000221192 467 -100%
1933 520 0.000260072 520 -100%
1934 516 0.000248457 516 -100%
1935 604 0.000289009 604 -100%
1936 528 0.000254142 5 523 -98%
1937 551 0.000258604 551 -100%
1938 529 0.000239088 7 522 -97%
1939 499 0.000226464 499 -100%
1940 453 0.000196727 5 448 -98%
1941 456 0.000187159 456 -100%
1942 506 0.000185225 5 501 -98%
1943 435 0.000154115 5 430 -98%
1944 401 0.000149066 401 -100%
1945 322 0.000121376 322 -100%
1946 366 0.000114543 366 -100%
1947 378 0.000104932 378 -100%
1948 354 0.000102534 354 -100%
1949 344 0.000098715 344 -100%
1950 379 0.000108182 379 -100%
1951 370 0.000100441 370 -100%
1952 315 0.000082938 315 -100%
1953 331 0.000085893 331 -100%
1954 330 0.0000829 330 -100%
1955 356 0.000088666 356 -100%
1956 346 0.000083919 346 -100%
1957 354 0.000084243 354 -100%
1958 350 0.000084666 350 -100%
1959 318 0.000076479 318 -100%
1960 356 0.000085704 356 -100%
1961 377 0.000091012 377 -100%
1962 336 0.000083264 336 -100%
1963 303 0.00007655 303 -100%
1964 279 0.000071767 279 -100%
1965 259 0.000071439 259 -100%
1966 217 0.000062434 217 -100%
1967 213 0.000062741 213 -100%
1968 191 0.000056535 191 -100%
1969 213 0.000061289 213 -100%
1970 188 0.000052128 188 -100%
1971 215 0.000062639 215 -100%
1972 231 0.000073497 231 -100%
1973 205 0.000067951 205 -100%
1974 174 0.000057237 174 -100%
1975 179 0.000059283 179 -100%
1976 170 0.000056026 170 -100%
1977 185 0.00005824 185 -100%
1978 174 0.000054823 174 -100%
1979 168 0.000050496 168 -100%
1980 145 0.000042096 6 139 -92%
1981 156 0.000045095 156 -100%
1982 174 0.000049601 174 -100%
1983 138 0.000039846 138 -100%
1984 130 0.000037263 130 -100%
1985 116 0.000032501 116 -100%
1986 121 0.000034017 121 -100%
1987 116 0.000032172 116 -100%
1988 104 0.000028146 104 -100%
1989 97 0.000025231 97 -100%
1990 98 0.000024795 98 -100%
1991 80 0.000020538 80 -100%
1992 65 0.000016921 65 -100%
1993 78 0.000020688 78 -100%
1994 48 0.000012911 48 -100%
1995 41 0.000011196 41 -100%
1996 45 0.000012338 45 -100%
1997 55 0.000015169 55 -100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 -100%
1999 29 0.000007851 29 -100%
2000 40 0.000010582 40 -100%
2001 36 0.000009617 36 -100%
2002 35 0.000009363 35 -100%
2003 40 0.00001052 40 -100%
2004 37 0.000009684 37 -100%
2005 41 0.000010664 41 -100%
2006 25 0.000006319 25 -100%
2007 32 0.000008005 32 -100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 -100%
2009 43 0.000011256 43 -100%
2010 22 0.000005953 22 -100%
2011 27 0.000007382 27 -100%
2012 38 0.00001039 38 -100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 -100%
2014 35 0.000009443 35 -100%
2015 27 0.000007295 27 -100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 -100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 -100%
2019 18 0.000005186 18 -100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 -100%
2021 35 0.000010331 35 -100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 -100%
2023 39 0.000011778 39 -100%
2024 29 0.000008713 29 -100%

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