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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Inger” in the USA?

Number of people named “Inger” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Inger” by birth year

This chart shows how “Inger” 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
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 12 0.000005527 12 100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1957 17 0.000004046 17 100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 100%
1959 30 0.000007215 30 100%
1960 25 0.000006019 25 100%
1961 30 0.000007242 30 100%
1962 39 0.000009665 39 100%
1963 42 0.000010611 42 100%
1964 107 0.000027523 107 100%
1965 101 0.000027859 101 100%
1966 118 0.00003395 118 100%
1967 58 0.000017084 58 100%
1968 55 0.00001628 55 100%
1969 52 0.000014963 52 100%
1970 76 0.000021073 76 100%
1971 67 0.00001952 67 100%
1972 32 0.000010181 32 100%
1973 28 0.000009281 28 100%
1974 30 0.000009868 30 100%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 100%
1977 20 0.000006296 20 100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%

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