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How popular is “Derryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Derryl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Derryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Derryl” 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
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 18 0.000005633 18 -100%
1947 29 0.00000805 9 20 -38%
1948 19 0.000005503 19 -100%
1949 22 0.000006313 6 16 -45%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 -100%
1954 30 0.000007536 30 -100%
1955 23 0.000005728 23 -100%
1956 23 0.000005578 23 -100%
1957 25 0.000005949 25 -100%
1958 28 0.000006773 28 -100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 -100%
1960 26 0.000006259 26 -100%
1961 40 0.000009656 40 -100%
1962 44 0.000010904 44 -100%
1963 33 0.000008337 33 -100%
1964 37 0.000009517 37 -100%
1965 36 0.00000993 36 -100%
1966 22 0.00000633 22 -100%
1967 24 0.000007069 24 -100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 17 0.000004601 17 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%

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