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How popular is “Halley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Halley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Halley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Halley” 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
1910 23 0.000038936 11 12 -4%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 100%
1977 21 0.000006611 21 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 25 0.000007166 25 100%
1985 156 0.000043708 146 10 87%
1986 355 0.000099801 333 22 88%
1987 69 0.000019137 69 100%
1988 71 0.000019215 71 100%
1989 56 0.000014566 56 100%
1990 63 0.000015939 63 100%
1991 85 0.000021821 85 100%
1992 111 0.000028897 111 100%
1993 174 0.00004615 174 100%
1994 152 0.000040886 152 100%
1995 162 0.000044236 162 100%
1996 134 0.000036741 134 100%
1997 134 0.000036958 134 100%
1998 128 0.0000348 128 100%
1999 171 0.000046293 171 100%
2000 180 0.00004762 180 100%
2001 146 0.000039002 146 100%
2002 122 0.000032635 122 100%
2003 142 0.000037346 142 100%
2004 113 0.000029574 113 100%
2005 92 0.000023928 92 100%
2006 94 0.00002376 94 100%
2007 78 0.000019511 78 100%
2008 82 0.000020862 82 100%
2009 61 0.000015968 61 100%
2010 59 0.000015964 59 100%
2011 51 0.000013943 51 100%
2012 52 0.000014218 52 100%
2013 47 0.000012892 47 100%
2014 41 0.000011062 41 100%
2015 43 0.000011619 43 100%
2016 32 0.000008722 32 100%
2017 42 0.000011744 42 100%
2018 40 0.000011377 40 100%
2019 43 0.000012389 43 100%
2020 35 0.000010477 35 100%
2021 37 0.000010921 37 100%
2022 47 0.000013892 47 100%
2023 49 0.000014798 49 100%
2024 63 0.000018927 63 100%

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