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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Byron” in the USA?

Number of people named “Byron” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Byron” by birth year

This chart shows how “Byron” 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
1880 52 0.000258085 52 -100%
1881 40 0.000207589 40 -100%
1882 66 0.000297924 66 -100%
1883 50 0.000230472 50 -100%
1884 57 0.000234124 57 -100%
1885 46 0.000190987 46 -100%
1886 51 0.000199752 51 -100%
1887 47 0.000189982 47 -100%
1888 52 0.000173638 52 -100%
1889 37 0.000128052 37 -100%
1890 52 0.000172528 52 -100%
1891 53 0.00018488 53 -100%
1892 69 0.000206356 69 -100%
1893 47 0.000144516 47 -100%
1894 59 0.000174201 59 -100%
1895 56 0.000159535 56 -100%
1896 59 0.000165042 59 -100%
1897 50 0.00014411 50 -100%
1898 55 0.000144185 55 -100%
1899 47 0.000138547 47 -100%
1900 61 0.000135478 61 -100%
1901 51 0.000147479 51 -100%
1902 50 0.000129288 50 -100%
1903 59 0.000154774 59 -100%
1904 61 0.000151183 61 -100%
1905 59 0.000139177 59 -100%
1906 65 0.000151709 65 -100%
1907 71 0.00015256 71 -100%
1908 70 0.000143252 70 -100%
1909 69 0.00013497 69 -100%
1910 89 0.000150666 89 -100%
1911 96 0.000149004 96 -100%
1912 227 0.000229743 227 -100%
1913 303 0.000266465 303 -100%
1914 395 0.000278887 395 -100%
1915 458 0.000249942 458 -100%
1916 471 0.000243484 471 -100%
1917 487 0.000242681 487 -100%
1918 512 0.000235824 7 505 -97%
1919 487 0.000230779 487 -100%
1920 571 0.00025236 571 -100%
1921 565 0.000242021 7 558 -98%
1922 599 0.000261668 599 -100%
1923 536 0.000232792 536 -100%
1924 594 0.000249411 594 -100%
1925 516 0.000221146 516 -100%
1926 533 0.000232152 533 -100%
1927 532 0.000229374 532 -100%
1928 553 0.000244589 7 546 -97%
1929 520 0.000237209 520 -100%
1930 481 0.000216346 7 474 -97%
1931 508 0.0002414 6 502 -98%
1932 471 0.000223086 471 -100%
1933 442 0.000221061 442 -100%
1934 425 0.00020464 425 -100%
1935 457 0.000218671 457 -100%
1936 466 0.0002243 5 461 -98%
1937 521 0.000244524 521 -100%
1938 515 0.000232761 515 -100%
1939 555 0.000251879 555 -100%
1940 547 0.000237549 547 -100%
1941 539 0.000221226 539 -100%
1942 643 0.000235374 643 -100%
1943 588 0.000208322 588 -100%
1944 531 0.000197392 5 526 -98%
1945 563 0.00021222 563 -100%
1946 786 0.000245986 786 -100%
1947 804 0.000223189 5 799 -99%
1948 796 0.000230556 796 -100%
1949 744 0.0002135 744 -100%
1950 830 0.000236916 830 -100%
1951 837 0.000227215 837 -100%
1952 901 0.00023723 901 -100%
1953 926 0.000240292 926 -100%
1954 1045 0.000262516 1045 -100%
1955 1055 0.000262759 1055 -100%
1956 1254 0.000304145 5 1249 -99%
1957 1259 0.000299609 1259 -100%
1958 1218 0.000294637 10 1208 -98%
1959 1221 0.000293651 1221 -100%
1960 1190 0.000286484 1190 -100%
1961 1227 0.000296212 1227 -100%
1962 1271 0.000314965 7 1264 -99%
1963 1252 0.000316305 8 1244 -99%
1964 1289 0.000331567 5 1284 -99%
1965 1232 0.00033982 7 1225 -99%
1966 1186 0.000341231 9 1177 -98%
1967 1186 0.000349348 5 1181 -99%
1968 1139 0.000337141 13 1126 -98%
1969 1214 0.00034932 10 1204 -98%
1970 1240 0.000343822 10 1230 -98%
1971 1095 0.000319023 10 1085 -98%
1972 951 0.000302578 6 945 -99%
1973 924 0.000306276 9 915 -98%
1974 963 0.000316776 10 953 -98%
1975 920 0.000304697 6 914 -99%
1976 915 0.000301552 9 906 -98%
1977 857 0.000269794 7 850 -98%
1978 804 0.000253319 10 794 -98%
1979 865 0.000259994 12 853 -97%
1980 1030 0.000299027 5 1025 -99%
1981 1005 0.000290515 8 997 -98%
1982 870 0.000248007 6 864 -99%
1983 1046 0.000302021 16 1030 -97%
1984 899 0.000257685 7 892 -98%
1985 901 0.000252444 7 894 -98%
1986 900 0.000253017 7 893 -98%
1987 936 0.000259595 6 930 -99%
1988 1063 0.000287683 7 1056 -99%
1989 1081 0.000281185 7 1074 -99%
1990 1021 0.000258319 5 1016 -99%
1991 908 0.000233104 908 -100%
1992 847 0.0002205 5 842 -99%
1993 739 0.000196007 739 -100%
1994 645 0.000173497 645 -100%
1995 598 0.000163292 598 -100%
1996 566 0.000155188 566 -100%
1997 607 0.000167414 607 -100%
1998 549 0.000149258 549 -100%
1999 562 0.000152144 562 -100%
2000 544 0.000143919 544 -100%
2001 491 0.000131165 491 -100%
2002 473 0.000126528 473 -100%
2003 502 0.000132025 502 -100%
2004 480 0.000125624 480 -100%
2005 503 0.000130825 503 -100%
2006 493 0.000124615 493 -100%
2007 496 0.000124072 496 -100%
2008 617 0.000156971 617 -100%
2009 738 0.000193185 738 -100%
2010 565 0.000152879 565 -100%
2011 512 0.000139975 512 -100%
2012 481 0.000131515 481 -100%
2013 515 0.000141264 515 -100%
2014 401 0.000108192 401 -100%
2015 457 0.000123483 457 -100%
2016 385 0.000104942 385 -100%
2017 399 0.000111571 399 -100%
2018 324 0.000092153 324 -100%
2019 347 0.000099973 347 -100%
2020 294 0.000088009 294 -100%
2021 339 0.000100061 339 -100%
2022 264 0.000078034 264 -100%
2023 291 0.000087884 291 -100%
2024 272 0.000081718 272 -100%

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