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How popular is “Eldon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Eldon” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Eldon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Eldon” 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
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 9 0.000037367 9 -100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 -100%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 -100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 -100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 9 0.00002564 9 -100%
1896 14 0.000039163 14 -100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 -100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 -100%
1899 21 0.000061904 21 -100%
1900 20 0.000044419 20 -100%
1901 19 0.000054943 19 -100%
1902 24 0.000062058 24 -100%
1903 27 0.000070829 27 -100%
1904 26 0.000064439 26 -100%
1905 26 0.000061332 26 -100%
1906 38 0.000088692 38 -100%
1907 38 0.000081652 38 -100%
1908 38 0.000077765 38 -100%
1909 39 0.000076287 39 -100%
1910 62 0.000104958 62 -100%
1911 64 0.000099336 64 -100%
1912 153 0.000154849 153 -100%
1913 243 0.0002137 243 -100%
1914 295 0.000208283 295 -100%
1915 401 0.000218836 401 -100%
1916 424 0.000219187 424 -100%
1917 444 0.000221253 5 439 -98%
1918 529 0.000243654 6 523 -98%
1919 517 0.000244995 517 -100%
1920 523 0.000231146 6 517 -98%
1921 596 0.0002553 596 -100%
1922 612 0.000267347 7 605 -98%
1923 591 0.00025668 591 -100%
1924 597 0.000250671 597 -100%
1925 595 0.000255003 595 -100%
1926 647 0.000281806 647 -100%
1927 640 0.000275938 640 -100%
1928 579 0.000256088 579 -100%
1929 588 0.000268228 8 580 -97%
1930 575 0.000258626 575 -100%
1931 567 0.000269437 6 561 -98%
1932 552 0.000261451 5 547 -98%
1933 535 0.000267574 535 -100%
1934 568 0.000273496 568 -100%
1935 514 0.000245945 514 -100%
1936 540 0.000259918 540 -100%
1937 491 0.000230444 491 -100%
1938 462 0.000208807 5 457 -98%
1939 494 0.000224195 494 -100%
1940 485 0.000210624 485 -100%
1941 434 0.00017813 434 -100%
1942 448 0.000163993 448 -100%
1943 449 0.000159076 449 -100%
1944 393 0.000146092 7 386 -96%
1945 352 0.000132684 352 -100%
1946 347 0.000108597 347 -100%
1947 436 0.000121033 436 -100%
1948 363 0.000105141 363 -100%
1949 339 0.00009728 339 -100%
1950 292 0.000083349 292 -100%
1951 288 0.000078181 288 -100%
1952 298 0.000078462 298 -100%
1953 275 0.000071361 275 -100%
1954 276 0.000069334 276 -100%
1955 252 0.000062763 252 -100%
1956 248 0.00006015 248 -100%
1957 216 0.000051402 216 -100%
1958 197 0.000047655 197 -100%
1959 181 0.000043531 181 -100%
1960 179 0.000043093 179 -100%
1961 165 0.000039833 165 -100%
1962 167 0.000041384 167 -100%
1963 145 0.000036633 145 -100%
1964 144 0.000037041 144 -100%
1965 134 0.000036961 134 -100%
1966 106 0.000030498 106 -100%
1967 113 0.000033285 113 -100%
1968 102 0.000030192 102 -100%
1969 115 0.00003309 115 -100%
1970 137 0.000037987 137 -100%
1971 119 0.00003467 119 -100%
1972 91 0.000028953 91 -100%
1973 85 0.000028175 85 -100%
1974 89 0.000029276 89 -100%
1975 101 0.00003345 101 -100%
1976 94 0.000030979 94 -100%
1977 82 0.000025815 82 -100%
1978 67 0.00002111 67 -100%
1979 59 0.000017734 59 -100%
1980 78 0.000022645 78 -100%
1981 66 0.000019079 66 -100%
1982 47 0.000013398 47 -100%
1983 65 0.000018768 65 -100%
1984 62 0.000017771 62 -100%
1985 59 0.000016531 59 -100%
1986 47 0.000013213 47 -100%
1987 57 0.000015809 57 -100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 -100%
1989 55 0.000014306 55 -100%
1990 49 0.000012397 49 -100%
1991 56 0.000014376 56 -100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 -100%
1993 40 0.000010609 40 -100%
1994 47 0.000012642 47 -100%
1995 39 0.000010649 39 -100%
1996 33 0.000009048 33 -100%
1997 48 0.000013239 48 -100%
1998 49 0.000013322 49 -100%
1999 38 0.000010287 38 -100%
2000 46 0.00001217 46 -100%
2001 42 0.00001122 42 -100%
2002 40 0.0000107 40 -100%
2003 39 0.000010257 39 -100%
2004 51 0.000013348 51 -100%
2005 46 0.000011964 46 -100%
2006 56 0.000014155 56 -100%
2007 41 0.000010256 41 -100%
2008 54 0.000013738 54 -100%
2009 41 0.000010732 41 -100%
2010 44 0.000011906 44 -100%
2011 50 0.000013669 50 -100%
2012 56 0.000015312 56 -100%
2013 42 0.000011521 42 -100%
2014 65 0.000017537 65 -100%
2015 55 0.000014861 55 -100%
2016 64 0.000017445 64 -100%
2017 72 0.000020133 72 -100%
2018 56 0.000015928 56 -100%
2019 74 0.00002132 74 -100%
2020 60 0.000017961 60 -100%
2021 57 0.000016824 57 -100%
2022 65 0.000019213 65 -100%
2023 63 0.000019026 63 -100%
2024 64 0.000019228 64 -100%

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