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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Emelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Emelyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Emelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Emelyn” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 13 0.000003337 13 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 100%
1994 28 0.000007532 28 100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 30 0.000008225 30 100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 100%
1999 36 0.000009746 36 100%
2000 42 0.000011111 42 100%
2001 54 0.000014425 54 100%
2002 58 0.000015515 58 100%
2003 72 0.000018936 72 100%
2004 78 0.000020414 78 100%
2005 77 0.000020027 77 100%
2006 91 0.000023002 91 100%
2007 74 0.000018511 74 100%
2008 102 0.00002595 102 100%
2009 109 0.000028533 109 100%
2010 99 0.000026788 99 100%
2011 110 0.000030073 110 100%
2012 109 0.000029803 109 100%
2013 129 0.000035384 129 100%
2014 118 0.000031837 118 100%
2015 107 0.000028912 107 100%
2016 96 0.000026167 96 100%
2017 107 0.00002992 107 100%
2018 99 0.000028158 99 100%
2019 106 0.000030539 106 100%
2020 84 0.000025145 84 100%
2021 88 0.000025974 88 100%
2022 70 0.000020691 70 100%
2023 90 0.000027181 90 100%
2024 70 0.00002103 70 100%

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