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How popular is “Burleigh” in the USA?

Number of people named “Burleigh” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Burleigh” by birth year

This chart shows how “Burleigh” 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
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 -100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 13 0.000005605 13 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 14 0.000006386 14 -100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 -100%
1931 26 0.000012355 26 -100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 -100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1946 12 0.000003756 12 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%

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