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How popular is “Dresden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dresden” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Dresden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dresden” 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
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 5 5 0%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 7 5 17%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 11 0.000003034 6 5 9%
1998 18 0.000004894 7 11 -22%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 -100%
2001 17 0.000004541 6 11 -29%
2002 14 0.000003745 6 8 -14%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 10 6 25%
2005 26 0.000006762 11 15 -15%
2006 29 0.00000733 6 23 -59%
2007 54 0.000013508 54 -100%
2008 67 0.000017045 7 60 -79%
2009 56 0.000014659 6 50 -79%
2010 69 0.00001867 8 61 -77%
2011 56 0.00001531 8 48 -71%
2012 84 0.000022967 11 73 -74%
2013 64 0.000017555 11 53 -66%
2014 63 0.000016998 10 53 -68%
2015 67 0.000018104 10 57 -70%
2016 56 0.000015264 56 -100%
2017 55 0.000015379 13 42 -53%
2018 39 0.000011092 39 -100%
2019 34 0.000009796 34 -100%
2020 30 0.00000898 30 -100%
2021 33 0.00000974 33 -100%
2022 35 0.000010345 35 -100%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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