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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Janet” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janet” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Janet” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janet” 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
1880 28 0.000138969 28 100%
1881 29 0.000150502 29 100%
1882 35 0.00015799 35 100%
1883 44 0.000202815 44 100%
1884 40 0.000164297 40 100%
1885 46 0.000190987 46 100%
1886 56 0.000219336 56 100%
1887 58 0.000234446 58 100%
1888 68 0.000227065 68 100%
1889 57 0.000197269 57 100%
1890 76 0.000252156 76 100%
1891 84 0.000293017 84 100%
1892 78 0.000233272 78 100%
1893 72 0.000221387 72 100%
1894 89 0.000262777 89 100%
1895 92 0.000262093 92 100%
1896 102 0.000285327 102 100%
1897 103 0.000296867 103 100%
1898 122 0.000319828 122 100%
1899 80 0.000235825 80 100%
1900 108 0.000239862 108 100%
1901 108 0.000312308 108 100%
1902 115 0.000297363 115 100%
1903 119 0.000312172 119 100%
1904 128 0.000317236 128 100%
1905 154 0.000363274 154 100%
1906 139 0.000324425 139 100%
1907 197 0.000423301 197 100%
1908 231 0.000472732 231 100%
1909 242 0.000473374 242 100%
1910 296 0.000501091 296 100%
1911 386 0.00059912 386 100%
1912 553 0.000559682 553 100%
1913 712 0.000626149 712 100%
1914 883 0.000623436 883 100%
1915 1173 0.000640135 1173 100%
1916 1449 0.000749063 1449 100%
1917 1590 0.000792326 1585 5 99%
1918 1812 0.000834596 1812 100%
1919 1870 0.000886153 1864 6 99%
1920 2057 0.000909114 2057 100%
1921 2123 0.000909401 2123 100%
1922 2004 0.000875432 2004 100%
1923 2221 0.000964612 2221 100%
1924 2298 0.000964893 2293 5 100%
1925 2438 0.001044871 2428 10 99%
1926 2474 0.001077571 2468 6 100%
1927 2553 0.001100736 2546 7 99%
1928 2791 0.001234443 2782 9 99%
1929 3060 0.001395883 3050 10 99%
1930 4613 0.002074855 4602 11 100%
1931 4970 0.002361732 4948 22 99%
1932 5815 0.002754239 5786 29 99%
1933 7365 0.003683518 7342 23 99%
1934 8096 0.003898275 8070 26 99%
1935 7886 0.003773386 7856 30 99%
1936 8116 0.003906472 8081 35 99%
1937 9405 0.004414104 9363 42 99%
1938 9902 0.00447533 9870 32 99%
1939 10150 0.004606429 10120 30 99%
1940 10144 0.004405292 10105 39 99%
1941 11167 0.004583355 11137 30 99%
1942 13103 0.00479644 13064 39 99%
1943 13362 0.004734002 13316 46 99%
1944 12628 0.004694286 12592 36 99%
1945 12362 0.004659789 12326 36 99%
1946 14172 0.004435255 14142 30 100%
1947 15266 0.004237822 15236 30 100%
1948 14002 0.004055591 13977 25 100%
1949 14886 0.004271724 14859 27 100%
1950 16223 0.0046307 16193 30 100%
1951 16972 0.004607276 16947 25 100%
1952 17950 0.004726165 17921 29 100%
1953 17805 0.004620302 17771 34 100%
1954 18507 0.004649173 18477 30 100%
1955 17948 0.004470148 17920 28 100%
1956 16795 0.004073454 16758 37 100%
1957 15788 0.003757131 15753 35 100%
1958 14849 0.003592004 14817 32 100%
1959 14991 0.003605346 14962 29 100%
1960 14274 0.003436359 14249 25 100%
1961 13961 0.003370349 13932 29 100%
1962 12285 0.003044329 12255 30 100%
1963 10693 0.00270148 10666 27 99%
1964 9274 0.00238553 9249 25 99%
1965 7677 0.002117531 7654 23 99%
1966 6454 0.001856916 6434 20 99%
1967 5672 0.001670743 5657 15 99%
1968 4851 0.001435881 4838 13 99%
1969 4408 0.001268371 4381 27 99%
1970 4169 0.001155964 4159 10 100%
1971 3409 0.000993196 3394 15 99%
1972 2963 0.000942732 2954 9 99%
1973 2533 0.000839607 2521 12 99%
1974 2186 0.000719079 2175 11 99%
1975 1956 0.000647812 1950 6 99%
1976 1889 0.000622549 1879 10 99%
1977 1952 0.000614514 1944 8 99%
1978 1740 0.000548227 1730 10 99%
1979 1754 0.000527202 1747 7 99%
1980 1623 0.000471185 1610 13 98%
1981 1582 0.000457308 1568 14 98%
1982 1513 0.000431305 1499 14 98%
1983 1410 0.000407122 1398 12 98%
1984 1274 0.000365173 1266 8 99%
1985 1257 0.000352189 1242 15 98%
1986 1259 0.000353942 1236 23 96%
1987 1331 0.000369147 1313 18 97%
1988 1192 0.000322594 1179 13 98%
1989 1231 0.000320202 1210 21 97%
1990 1294 0.00032739 1285 9 99%
1991 1201 0.000308323 1186 15 98%
1992 1205 0.000313698 1197 8 99%
1993 1068 0.000283268 1068 100%
1994 1016 0.000273291 1007 9 98%
1995 934 0.000255041 928 6 99%
1996 827 0.00022675 827 100%
1997 757 0.000208784 757 100%
1998 759 0.000206351 759 100%
1999 646 0.000174884 646 100%
2000 686 0.000181486 686 100%
2001 696 0.000185928 696 100%
2002 630 0.000168526 630 100%
2003 565 0.000148594 565 100%
2004 672 0.000175874 672 100%
2005 512 0.000133165 512 100%
2006 523 0.000132198 523 100%
2007 449 0.000112315 449 100%
2008 415 0.00010558 415 100%
2009 353 0.000092404 353 100%
2010 298 0.000080633 298 100%
2011 269 0.000073542 269 100%
2012 212 0.000057965 212 100%
2013 189 0.000051842 189 100%
2014 168 0.000045327 168 100%
2015 154 0.000041611 154 100%
2016 162 0.000044157 162 100%
2017 171 0.000047816 171 100%
2018 159 0.000045223 159 100%
2019 123 0.000035437 123 100%
2020 92 0.00002754 92 100%
2021 92 0.000027155 92 100%
2022 103 0.000030445 103 100%
2023 97 0.000029295 97 100%
2024 74 0.000022232 74 100%

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