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How popular is “Dewayne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dewayne” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dewayne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dewayne” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 -100%
1915 26 0.000014189 26 -100%
1916 25 0.000012924 25 -100%
1917 28 0.000013953 28 -100%
1918 45 0.000020727 45 -100%
1919 35 0.000016586 35 -100%
1920 48 0.000021214 48 -100%
1921 53 0.000022703 53 -100%
1922 61 0.000026647 61 -100%
1923 69 0.000029968 69 -100%
1924 70 0.000029392 70 -100%
1925 74 0.000031715 74 -100%
1926 69 0.000030054 69 -100%
1927 67 0.000028887 67 -100%
1928 77 0.000034057 77 -100%
1929 87 0.000039687 87 -100%
1930 76 0.000034184 76 -100%
1931 131 0.000062251 131 -100%
1932 114 0.000053995 114 -100%
1933 121 0.000060517 121 -100%
1934 127 0.000061151 127 -100%
1935 188 0.000089956 188 -100%
1936 165 0.000079419 165 -100%
1937 146 0.000068523 146 -100%
1938 147 0.000066438 6 141 -92%
1939 139 0.000063083 139 -100%
1940 156 0.000067747 156 -100%
1941 185 0.000075931 185 -100%
1942 159 0.000058203 159 -100%
1943 163 0.000057749 163 -100%
1944 196 0.00007286 196 -100%
1945 158 0.000059557 158 -100%
1946 188 0.000058836 188 -100%
1947 226 0.000062737 226 -100%
1948 213 0.000061694 213 -100%
1949 203 0.000058253 203 -100%
1950 214 0.000061084 214 -100%
1951 238 0.000064608 238 -100%
1952 290 0.000076356 290 -100%
1953 296 0.00007681 296 -100%
1954 292 0.000073354 292 -100%
1955 319 0.00007945 319 -100%
1956 358 0.000086829 358 -100%
1957 428 0.000101853 428 -100%
1958 467 0.000112968 6 461 -97%
1959 500 0.00012025 500 -100%
1960 579 0.00013939 579 -100%
1961 633 0.000152814 6 627 -98%
1962 653 0.000161819 653 -100%
1963 653 0.000164974 5 648 -98%
1964 611 0.000157166 611 -100%
1965 586 0.000161635 586 -100%
1966 601 0.000172917 601 -100%
1967 516 0.000151993 6 510 -98%
1968 524 0.000155102 524 -100%
1969 547 0.000157395 10 537 -96%
1970 554 0.000153611 554 -100%
1971 550 0.00016024 7 543 -97%
1972 530 0.000168629 530 -100%
1973 521 0.000172695 521 -100%
1974 426 0.000140132 426 -100%
1975 484 0.000160297 8 476 -97%
1976 471 0.000155225 471 -100%
1977 526 0.000165591 526 -100%
1978 467 0.000147139 5 462 -98%
1979 439 0.000131951 8 431 -96%
1980 446 0.000129482 5 441 -98%
1981 389 0.000112448 11 378 -94%
1982 406 0.000115737 8 398 -96%
1983 323 0.000093263 6 317 -96%
1984 340 0.000097456 5 335 -97%
1985 313 0.000087697 313 -100%
1986 300 0.000084339 300 -100%
1987 304 0.000084313 304 -100%
1988 272 0.000073612 5 267 -96%
1989 286 0.000074393 286 -100%
1990 245 0.000061986 245 -100%
1991 265 0.000068031 265 -100%
1992 247 0.000064302 247 -100%
1993 184 0.000048803 184 -100%
1994 177 0.000047611 177 -100%
1995 198 0.000054067 198 -100%
1996 157 0.000043047 157 -100%
1997 173 0.000047714 173 -100%
1998 168 0.000045674 168 -100%
1999 169 0.000045752 169 -100%
2000 184 0.000048678 184 -100%
2001 153 0.000040872 153 -100%
2002 149 0.000039858 149 -100%
2003 147 0.000038661 147 -100%
2004 154 0.000040304 154 -100%
2005 151 0.000039273 151 -100%
2006 146 0.000036904 146 -100%
2007 164 0.000041024 164 -100%
2008 157 0.000039942 157 -100%
2009 151 0.000039527 151 -100%
2010 145 0.000039234 145 -100%
2011 128 0.000034994 128 -100%
2012 115 0.000031443 115 -100%
2013 115 0.000031544 115 -100%
2014 108 0.000029139 108 -100%
2015 102 0.000027561 102 -100%
2016 85 0.000023169 85 -100%
2017 90 0.000025166 90 -100%
2018 67 0.000019056 67 -100%
2019 70 0.000020167 70 -100%
2020 65 0.000019458 65 -100%
2021 60 0.00001771 60 -100%
2022 53 0.000015666 53 -100%
2023 48 0.000014496 48 -100%
2024 39 0.000011717 39 -100%

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