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How popular is “Diesel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Diesel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Diesel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Diesel” 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
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 -100%
2003 27 0.000007101 27 -100%
2004 30 0.000007852 30 -100%
2005 43 0.000011184 43 -100%
2006 65 0.00001643 65 -100%
2007 79 0.000019761 79 -100%
2008 90 0.000022897 90 -100%
2009 119 0.00003115 119 -100%
2010 108 0.000029223 108 -100%
2011 123 0.000033627 123 -100%
2012 134 0.000036638 134 -100%
2013 135 0.00003703 135 -100%
2014 156 0.00004209 156 -100%
2015 140 0.000037829 140 -100%
2016 135 0.000036798 135 -100%
2017 119 0.000033276 119 -100%
2018 96 0.000027305 96 -100%
2019 86 0.000024777 86 -100%
2020 79 0.000023649 79 -100%
2021 80 0.000023613 80 -100%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 -100%
2023 61 0.000018422 61 -100%
2024 38 0.000011417 38 -100%

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