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How popular is “Desmond” in the USA?

Number of people named “Desmond” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Desmond” by birth year

This chart shows how “Desmond” 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
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 19 0.000010369 19 -100%
1916 30 0.000015509 30 -100%
1917 22 0.000010963 22 -100%
1918 23 0.000010594 23 -100%
1919 15 0.000007108 15 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 30 0.000012851 30 -100%
1922 66 0.000028832 66 -100%
1923 52 0.000022584 52 -100%
1924 40 0.000016795 40 -100%
1925 33 0.000014143 33 -100%
1926 50 0.000021778 50 -100%
1927 33 0.000014228 33 -100%
1928 28 0.000012384 28 -100%
1929 28 0.000012773 28 -100%
1930 29 0.000013044 29 -100%
1931 34 0.000016157 34 -100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 -100%
1933 22 0.000011003 22 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 24 0.000011484 24 -100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 -100%
1937 23 0.000010795 23 -100%
1938 23 0.000010395 23 -100%
1939 21 0.000009531 21 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 25 0.000010261 25 -100%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 -100%
1943 23 0.000008149 23 -100%
1944 21 0.000007806 21 -100%
1945 23 0.00000867 23 -100%
1946 31 0.000009702 31 -100%
1947 36 0.000009994 36 -100%
1948 29 0.0000084 29 -100%
1949 26 0.000007461 26 -100%
1950 37 0.000010561 37 -100%
1951 43 0.000011673 43 -100%
1952 33 0.000008689 33 -100%
1953 44 0.000011418 44 -100%
1954 65 0.000016329 65 -100%
1955 62 0.000015442 62 -100%
1956 56 0.000013582 56 -100%
1957 49 0.000011661 49 -100%
1958 43 0.000010402 43 -100%
1959 60 0.00001443 60 -100%
1960 85 0.000020463 85 -100%
1961 92 0.00002221 92 -100%
1962 100 0.000024781 100 -100%
1963 116 0.000029306 116 -100%
1964 134 0.000034469 134 -100%
1965 124 0.000034203 124 -100%
1966 121 0.000034814 121 -100%
1967 148 0.000043595 148 -100%
1968 127 0.000037592 127 -100%
1969 132 0.000037982 132 -100%
1970 165 0.000045751 165 -100%
1971 225 0.000065553 225 -100%
1972 246 0.000078269 246 -100%
1973 279 0.000092479 279 -100%
1974 313 0.000102961 313 -100%
1975 245 0.000081142 5 240 -96%
1976 257 0.000084698 257 -100%
1977 378 0.000118999 8 370 -96%
1978 538 0.000169509 10 528 -96%
1979 453 0.000136159 10 443 -96%
1980 539 0.000156481 11 528 -96%
1981 387 0.00011187 387 -100%
1982 363 0.000103479 6 357 -97%
1983 362 0.000104523 7 355 -96%
1984 377 0.000108061 377 -100%
1985 682 0.000191084 5 677 -99%
1986 687 0.000193136 11 676 -97%
1987 602 0.000166962 8 594 -97%
1988 701 0.000189714 9 692 -97%
1989 770 0.000200289 11 759 -97%
1990 877 0.000221886 6 871 -99%
1991 846 0.000217187 11 835 -97%
1992 1079 0.000280896 11 1068 -98%
1993 764 0.000202638 12 752 -97%
1994 681 0.00018318 11 670 -97%
1995 676 0.000184591 9 667 -97%
1996 638 0.000174929 12 626 -96%
1997 901 0.0002485 16 885 -96%
1998 749 0.000203632 8 741 -98%
1999 752 0.000203581 10 742 -97%
2000 704 0.000186248 5 699 -99%
2001 636 0.000169899 636 -100%
2002 589 0.000157559 5 584 -98%
2003 562 0.000147805 6 556 -98%
2004 543 0.000142112 543 -100%
2005 530 0.000137847 530 -100%
2006 583 0.000147364 583 -100%
2007 681 0.000170349 5 676 -99%
2008 720 0.000183175 720 -100%
2009 788 0.000206273 788 -100%
2010 878 0.000237571 878 -100%
2011 843 0.000230467 843 -100%
2012 924 0.000252641 924 -100%
2013 989 0.000271281 5 984 -99%
2014 1035 0.000279249 1035 -100%
2015 962 0.000259936 962 -100%
2016 894 0.000243683 894 -100%
2017 1046 0.00029249 1046 -100%
2018 1030 0.000292955 1030 -100%
2019 863 0.000248636 863 -100%
2020 862 0.000258039 862 -100%
2021 920 0.000271551 920 -100%
2022 907 0.000268095 907 -100%
2023 796 0.000240397 796 -100%
2024 888 0.000266787 888 -100%

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