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How popular is “Deborah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Deborah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Deborah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Deborah” 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 12 0.000059558 12 100%
1881 14 0.000072656 14 100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 100%
1883 16 0.000073751 16 100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 100%
1885 10 0.000041519 10 100%
1886 10 0.000039167 10 100%
1887 15 0.000060633 15 100%
1888 26 0.000086819 26 100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 100%
1890 24 0.000079628 24 100%
1891 15 0.000052324 15 100%
1892 16 0.000047851 16 100%
1893 24 0.000073796 24 100%
1894 18 0.000053146 18 100%
1895 13 0.000037035 13 100%
1896 18 0.000050352 18 100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 100%
1898 21 0.000055052 21 100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 100%
1900 26 0.000057745 26 100%
1901 21 0.000060727 21 100%
1902 21 0.000054301 21 100%
1903 21 0.000055089 21 100%
1904 23 0.000057003 23 100%
1905 18 0.000042461 18 100%
1906 24 0.000056016 24 100%
1907 21 0.000045123 21 100%
1908 25 0.000051161 25 100%
1909 26 0.000050858 26 100%
1910 33 0.000055865 33 100%
1911 36 0.000055877 36 100%
1912 32 0.000032387 32 100%
1913 42 0.000036936 42 100%
1914 62 0.000043775 62 100%
1915 105 0.000057301 105 100%
1916 90 0.000046526 90 100%
1917 89 0.00004435 89 100%
1918 92 0.000042375 92 100%
1919 70 0.000033172 70 100%
1920 82 0.000036241 82 100%
1921 94 0.000040265 94 100%
1922 71 0.000031016 71 100%
1923 118 0.000051249 118 100%
1924 125 0.000052486 125 100%
1925 82 0.000035143 82 100%
1926 116 0.000050525 116 100%
1927 91 0.000039235 91 100%
1928 130 0.000057498 130 100%
1929 161 0.000073444 161 100%
1930 165 0.000074214 165 100%
1931 158 0.000075081 158 100%
1932 207 0.000098044 207 100%
1933 242 0.000121033 242 100%
1934 280 0.000134822 280 100%
1935 281 0.000134456 281 100%
1936 300 0.000144399 300 100%
1937 322 0.000151126 322 100%
1938 410 0.000185305 410 100%
1939 449 0.000203772 443 6 97%
1940 470 0.00020411 470 100%
1941 607 0.000249136 607 100%
1942 676 0.000247454 676 100%
1943 791 0.000280242 785 6 98%
1944 1298 0.000482514 1293 5 99%
1945 1462 0.000551093 1462 100%
1946 2481 0.000776451 2471 10 99%
1947 5848 0.001623397 5837 11 100%
1948 11270 0.003264284 11244 26 100%
1949 19238 0.005520585 19210 28 100%
1950 29109 0.008308886 29062 47 100%
1951 42115 0.011432678 42053 62 100%
1952 49906 0.013140056 49812 94 100%
1953 52281 0.01356664 52199 82 100%
1954 54755 0.013755091 54675 80 100%
1955 52417 0.013055032 52317 100 100%
1956 47930 0.011624926 47837 93 100%
1957 40179 0.00956155 40095 84 100%
1958 33019 0.007987365 32942 77 100%
1959 29618 0.00712315 29549 69 100%
1960 25325 0.006096805 25261 64 99%
1961 24161 0.005832748 24105 56 100%
1962 22945 0.005685969 22894 51 100%
1963 21102 0.005331211 21049 53 99%
1964 19367 0.004981731 19305 62 99%
1965 17128 0.004724381 17084 44 99%
1966 16294 0.004688037 16248 46 99%
1967 14062 0.004142099 14012 50 99%
1968 12322 0.003647275 12288 34 99%
1969 11218 0.003227901 11186 32 99%
1970 9874 0.002737824 9846 28 99%
1971 8710 0.002537616 8674 36 99%
1972 6296 0.002003185 6273 23 99%
1973 5009 0.001660321 4979 30 99%
1974 4363 0.001435198 4343 20 99%
1975 3429 0.001135658 3414 15 99%
1976 3009 0.000991662 2992 17 99%
1977 2697 0.000849049 2676 21 98%
1978 2491 0.000784846 2479 12 99%
1979 2193 0.000659152 2180 13 99%
1980 1945 0.000564667 1938 7 99%
1981 1913 0.00055299 1906 7 99%
1982 1850 0.000527372 1841 9 99%
1983 1614 0.000466024 1608 6 99%
1984 1474 0.0004225 1468 6 99%
1985 1407 0.000394216 1400 7 99%
1986 1294 0.000363782 1287 7 99%
1987 1210 0.000335588 1203 7 99%
1988 1056 0.000285788 1056 100%
1989 1086 0.000282485 1076 10 98%
1990 1100 0.000278306 1095 5 99%
1991 1015 0.000260573 1015 100%
1992 919 0.000239244 919 100%
1993 797 0.00021139 797 100%
1994 739 0.000198781 739 100%
1995 659 0.000179949 659 100%
1996 635 0.000174106 635 100%
1997 638 0.000175964 638 100%
1998 554 0.000150617 554 100%
1999 524 0.000141857 524 100%
2000 546 0.000144448 546 100%
2001 490 0.000130897 490 100%
2002 474 0.000126796 474 100%
2003 423 0.000111248 423 100%
2004 427 0.000111753 427 100%
2005 425 0.000110538 425 100%
2006 425 0.000107427 425 100%
2007 372 0.000093054 372 100%
2008 356 0.00009057 356 100%
2009 346 0.000090572 346 100%
2010 355 0.000096057 355 100%
2011 332 0.000090765 332 100%
2012 337 0.000092143 337 100%
2013 330 0.000090518 330 100%
2014 373 0.000100637 373 100%
2015 350 0.000094571 350 100%
2016 349 0.000095129 349 100%
2017 357 0.000099827 357 100%
2018 349 0.000099263 349 100%
2019 296 0.00008528 296 100%
2020 290 0.000086811 290 100%
2021 295 0.000087073 295 100%
2022 301 0.000088971 301 100%
2023 267 0.000080636 267 100%
2024 316 0.000094938 316 100%

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