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How popular is “Dennis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dennis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dennis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dennis” 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 128 0.000635286 128 -100%
1881 99 0.000513784 99 -100%
1882 135 0.00060939 135 -100%
1883 112 0.000516257 112 -100%
1884 113 0.00046414 113 -100%
1885 112 0.000465012 112 -100%
1886 98 0.000383838 98 -100%
1887 93 0.000375922 93 -100%
1888 106 0.000353954 106 -100%
1889 111 0.000384155 111 -100%
1890 102 0.00033842 102 -100%
1891 89 0.000310458 89 -100%
1892 82 0.000245234 82 -100%
1893 83 0.00025521 83 -100%
1894 84 0.000248014 84 -100%
1895 108 0.000307675 108 -100%
1896 90 0.00025176 90 -100%
1897 96 0.000276691 96 -100%
1898 99 0.000259533 99 -100%
1899 86 0.000253512 86 -100%
1900 132 0.000293165 132 -100%
1901 79 0.000228448 79 -100%
1902 85 0.00021979 85 -100%
1903 75 0.000196747 75 -100%
1904 90 0.000223057 90 -100%
1905 106 0.000250046 106 -100%
1906 89 0.000207725 89 -100%
1907 111 0.00023851 111 -100%
1908 101 0.000206692 101 -100%
1909 120 0.000234731 120 -100%
1910 135 0.000228538 135 -100%
1911 166 0.000257653 166 -100%
1912 268 0.000271238 268 -100%
1913 324 0.000284933 324 -100%
1914 390 0.000275357 8 382 -96%
1915 514 0.000280502 514 -100%
1916 532 0.000275018 532 -100%
1917 591 0.000294506 9 582 -97%
1918 647 0.000298004 10 637 -97%
1919 636 0.000301387 10 626 -97%
1920 632 0.000279319 8 624 -97%
1921 739 0.000316555 12 727 -97%
1922 683 0.000298363 6 677 -98%
1923 782 0.000339634 9 773 -98%
1924 812 0.000340946 5 807 -99%
1925 834 0.000357433 8 826 -98%
1926 850 0.000370224 12 838 -97%
1927 934 0.000402698 15 919 -97%
1928 968 0.000428141 11 957 -98%
1929 1007 0.000459364 10 997 -98%
1930 1190 0.000535243 17 1173 -97%
1931 1210 0.000574989 8 1202 -99%
1932 1434 0.000679205 13 1421 -98%
1933 1698 0.000849235 13 1685 -98%
1934 2068 0.000995755 15 2053 -99%
1935 2615 0.001251256 18 2597 -99%
1936 2637 0.001269266 10 2627 -99%
1937 3169 0.001487326 9 3160 -99%
1938 4248 0.001919936 12 4236 -99%
1939 6238 0.002831025 26 6212 -99%
1940 7884 0.003423829 39 7845 -99%
1941 9599 0.003939789 37 9562 -99%
1942 13313 0.004873312 32 13281 -100%
1943 14182 0.005024518 68 14114 -99%
1944 13723 0.005101337 44 13679 -99%
1945 15027 0.005664346 37 14990 -100%
1946 21494 0.00672674 48 21446 -100%
1947 23758 0.006595191 72 23686 -99%
1948 21807 0.00631626 44 21763 -100%
1949 21786 0.006251765 39 21747 -100%
1950 22901 0.006536871 39 22862 -100%
1951 24312 0.006599816 47 24265 -100%
1952 24605 0.006478401 53 24552 -100%
1953 23709 0.006152359 51 23658 -100%
1954 20803 0.005225955 46 20757 -100%
1955 20486 0.005102265 52 20434 -99%
1956 18417 0.004466853 55 18362 -99%
1957 16974 0.004039368 61 16913 -99%
1958 16476 0.003985579 54 16422 -99%
1959 16101 0.003872302 59 16042 -99%
1960 14356 0.0034561 54 14302 -99%
1961 12544 0.003028269 46 12498 -99%
1962 10685 0.002647835 52 10633 -99%
1963 9861 0.002491284 41 9820 -99%
1964 9371 0.002410481 42 9329 -99%
1965 8252 0.002276132 37 8215 -99%
1966 7820 0.002249936 33 7787 -99%
1967 7676 0.00226104 40 7636 -99%
1968 7434 0.002200441 31 7403 -99%
1969 7405 0.002130737 45 7360 -99%
1970 7346 0.00203687 33 7313 -99%
1971 6613 0.001926666 30 6583 -99%
1972 5647 0.001796694 39 5608 -99%
1973 5222 0.001730923 46 5176 -98%
1974 4912 0.00161579 32 4880 -99%
1975 4759 0.001576144 28 4731 -99%
1976 4201 0.001384504 32 4169 -98%
1977 4197 0.001321268 45 4152 -98%
1978 3892 0.001226263 32 3860 -98%
1979 4124 0.001239555 43 4081 -98%
1980 3834 0.001113077 28 3806 -99%
1981 3657 0.001057127 23 3634 -99%
1982 3420 0.000974925 28 3392 -98%
1983 3078 0.000888738 31 3047 -98%
1984 2978 0.0008536 25 2953 -98%
1985 2871 0.000804402 26 2845 -98%
1986 2735 0.000768889 30 2705 -98%
1987 2779 0.000770743 22 2757 -98%
1988 2667 0.000721778 15 2652 -99%
1989 2696 0.000701271 21 2675 -98%
1990 2511 0.000635298 17 2494 -99%
1991 2341 0.000600986 27 2314 -98%
1992 2179 0.00056726 14 2165 -99%
1993 1975 0.000523834 11 1964 -99%
1994 1810 0.000486866 22 1788 -98%
1995 1702 0.000464754 13 1689 -98%
1996 1558 0.000427178 19 1539 -98%
1997 1509 0.00041619 20 1489 -97%
1998 1331 0.000361861 13 1318 -98%
1999 1353 0.000366283 13 1340 -98%
2000 1353 0.000357946 10 1343 -99%
2001 1197 0.000319764 17 1180 -97%
2002 1104 0.000295322 23 1081 -96%
2003 1130 0.000297187 21 1109 -96%
2004 1041 0.000272447 25 1016 -95%
2005 1054 0.000274133 15 1039 -97%
2006 1042 0.000263385 13 1029 -98%
2007 989 0.000247393 21 968 -96%
2008 850 0.000216248 17 833 -96%
2009 859 0.000224859 14 845 -97%
2010 734 0.000198607 8 726 -98%
2011 700 0.000191372 15 685 -96%
2012 660 0.000180458 660 -100%
2013 625 0.000171436 625 -100%
2014 583 0.000157297 6 577 -98%
2015 592 0.000159961 592 -100%
2016 594 0.00016191 7 587 -98%
2017 521 0.000145686 5 516 -98%
2018 497 0.000141358 497 -100%
2019 510 0.000146935 510 -100%
2020 420 0.000125727 6 414 -97%
2021 393 0.000115999 8 385 -96%
2022 427 0.000126214 5 422 -98%
2023 427 0.000128956 427 -100%
2024 381 0.000114466 5 376 -97%

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