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How popular is “Hansen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hansen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hansen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hansen” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 -100%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 18 0.000004686 18 -100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 -100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 -100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1998 15 0.000004078 15 -100%
1999 23 0.000006227 23 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 -100%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 -100%
2005 31 0.000008063 31 -100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 -100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 -100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 -100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 27 0.000007285 27 -100%
2015 20 0.000005404 20 -100%
2016 36 0.000009813 36 -100%
2017 20 0.000005593 20 -100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 -100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 31 0.00000915 31 -100%
2022 25 0.00000739 25 -100%
2023 30 0.00000906 30 -100%
2024 35 0.000010515 35 -100%

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