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How popular is “Dena” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dena” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dena” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dena” 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 13 0.000064521 13 100%
1881 23 0.000119364 23 100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 100%
1883 16 0.000073751 16 100%
1884 24 0.000098578 24 100%
1885 27 0.000112101 27 100%
1886 32 0.000125335 32 100%
1887 39 0.000157645 39 100%
1888 38 0.000126889 38 100%
1889 30 0.000103826 30 100%
1890 31 0.000102853 31 100%
1891 33 0.000115114 33 100%
1892 45 0.00013458 45 100%
1893 32 0.000098394 32 100%
1894 63 0.000186011 63 100%
1895 36 0.000102558 36 100%
1896 50 0.000139866 50 100%
1897 40 0.000115288 40 100%
1898 48 0.000125834 48 100%
1899 37 0.000109069 37 100%
1900 53 0.00011771 53 100%
1901 41 0.000118562 41 100%
1902 36 0.000093087 36 100%
1903 24 0.000062959 24 100%
1904 39 0.000096658 39 100%
1905 37 0.00008728 37 100%
1906 28 0.000065352 28 100%
1907 38 0.000081652 38 100%
1908 49 0.000100276 49 100%
1909 31 0.000060639 31 100%
1910 30 0.000050786 30 100%
1911 48 0.000074502 48 100%
1912 59 0.000059713 59 100%
1913 62 0.000054524 62 100%
1914 75 0.000052953 75 100%
1915 113 0.000061667 113 100%
1916 96 0.000049627 96 100%
1917 94 0.000046842 94 100%
1918 122 0.000056192 122 100%
1919 104 0.000049283 104 100%
1920 95 0.000041986 95 100%
1921 97 0.000041551 97 100%
1922 83 0.000036258 83 100%
1923 86 0.000037351 86 100%
1924 86 0.00003611 86 100%
1925 91 0.000039001 91 100%
1926 92 0.000040071 92 100%
1927 77 0.000033199 77 100%
1928 64 0.000028307 64 100%
1929 71 0.000032388 71 100%
1930 78 0.000035083 78 100%
1931 76 0.000036115 76 100%
1932 73 0.000034576 73 100%
1933 66 0.000033009 66 100%
1934 49 0.000023594 49 100%
1935 59 0.000028231 59 100%
1936 65 0.000031286 65 100%
1937 64 0.000030037 64 100%
1938 68 0.000030733 68 100%
1939 76 0.000034491 76 100%
1940 73 0.000031702 73 100%
1941 79 0.000032425 79 100%
1942 88 0.000032213 88 100%
1943 84 0.00002976 84 100%
1944 112 0.000041634 112 100%
1945 127 0.000047872 127 100%
1946 123 0.000038494 123 100%
1947 223 0.000061905 223 100%
1948 172 0.000049819 172 100%
1949 178 0.000051079 178 100%
1950 205 0.000058515 205 100%
1951 224 0.000060808 224 100%
1952 229 0.000060295 229 100%
1953 315 0.000081741 315 100%
1954 427 0.000107267 427 100%
1955 467 0.000116312 467 100%
1956 503 0.000121997 503 100%
1957 471 0.000112086 471 100%
1958 516 0.000124821 516 100%
1959 599 0.00014406 599 100%
1960 739 0.000177909 739 100%
1961 768 0.000185404 768 100%
1962 906 0.000224515 906 100%
1963 956 0.000241524 956 100%
1964 913 0.000234849 908 5 99%
1965 810 0.000223421 810 100%
1966 843 0.000242544 843 100%
1967 960 0.000282777 960 100%
1968 1025 0.000303397 1020 5 99%
1969 1264 0.000363707 1264 100%
1970 1541 0.000427282 1541 100%
1971 1181 0.000344079 1171 10 98%
1972 981 0.000312123 972 9 98%
1973 860 0.000285062 854 6 99%
1974 838 0.000275658 838 100%
1975 821 0.000271909 815 6 99%
1976 676 0.000222786 676 100%
1977 582 0.000183221 582 100%
1978 517 0.000162893 517 100%
1979 537 0.000161407 537 100%
1980 530 0.000153868 530 100%
1981 484 0.00013991 476 8 97%
1982 451 0.000128565 451 100%
1983 416 0.000120115 416 100%
1984 406 0.000116374 406 100%
1985 358 0.000100305 358 100%
1986 273 0.000076748 273 100%
1987 236 0.000065453 236 100%
1988 250 0.000067658 250 100%
1989 225 0.000058526 218 7 94%
1990 196 0.000049589 196 100%
1991 156 0.000040049 156 100%
1992 142 0.000036967 142 100%
1993 128 0.00003395 128 100%
1994 115 0.000030933 115 100%
1995 127 0.000034679 127 100%
1996 154 0.000042224 154 100%
1997 101 0.000027856 101 100%
1998 101 0.000027459 101 100%
1999 90 0.000024365 90 100%
2000 94 0.000024868 94 100%
2001 71 0.000018967 71 100%
2002 93 0.000024878 93 100%
2003 84 0.000022092 84 100%
2004 65 0.000017012 65 100%
2005 69 0.000017946 69 100%
2006 66 0.000016683 66 100%
2007 60 0.000015009 60 100%
2008 58 0.000014756 58 100%
2009 47 0.000012303 47 100%
2010 50 0.000013529 50 100%
2011 42 0.000011482 42 100%
2012 34 0.000009296 34 100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 100%
2014 45 0.000012141 45 100%
2015 37 0.000009998 37 100%
2016 43 0.000011721 43 100%
2017 42 0.000011744 42 100%
2018 37 0.000010524 37 100%
2019 32 0.000009219 32 100%
2020 29 0.000008681 29 100%
2021 32 0.000009445 32 100%
2022 35 0.000010345 35 100%
2023 27 0.000008154 27 100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 100%

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