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How popular is “Bufford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bufford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bufford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bufford” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1917 11 0.000005482 11 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 -100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 -100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1952 11 0.000002896 11 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%

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