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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Janice” in the USA?

Number of people named “Janice” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Janice” by birth year

This chart shows how “Janice” 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
1894 5 0.000014763 5 100%
1899 13 0.000038322 13 100%
1900 37 0.000082175 37 100%
1901 34 0.000098319 34 100%
1902 43 0.000111188 43 100%
1903 35 0.000091815 35 100%
1904 36 0.000089223 36 100%
1905 42 0.000099075 42 100%
1906 51 0.000119033 51 100%
1907 40 0.000085949 40 100%
1908 59 0.000120741 59 100%
1909 78 0.000152575 78 100%
1910 89 0.000150666 89 100%
1911 117 0.000181599 117 100%
1912 142 0.000143716 142 100%
1913 157 0.000138069 157 100%
1914 225 0.00015886 225 100%
1915 285 0.000155532 285 100%
1916 372 0.000192306 372 100%
1917 455 0.000226735 455 100%
1918 510 0.000234903 510 100%
1919 589 0.000279115 589 100%
1920 670 0.000296114 670 100%
1921 732 0.000313557 732 100%
1922 745 0.000325447 745 100%
1923 787 0.000341805 787 100%
1924 1175 0.000493364 1175 100%
1925 1510 0.000647152 1510 100%
1926 1473 0.000641577 1467 6 99%
1927 1474 0.000635521 1468 6 99%
1928 1570 0.000694402 1565 5 99%
1929 1695 0.00077321 1690 5 99%
1930 1940 0.000872581 1930 10 99%
1931 2298 0.001092004 2287 11 99%
1932 2643 0.001251841 2628 15 99%
1933 3069 0.001534924 3061 8 99%
1934 3599 0.001732941 3588 11 99%
1935 4461 0.002134552 4442 19 99%
1936 6172 0.002970767 6149 23 99%
1937 7802 0.003661759 7768 34 99%
1938 8748 0.003953766 8711 37 99%
1939 8816 0.004001013 8779 37 99%
1940 9365 0.004066991 9318 47 99%
1941 10099 0.004145008 10061 38 99%
1942 10331 0.003781731 10286 45 99%
1943 10690 0.003787343 10651 39 99%
1944 9764 0.003629633 9732 32 99%
1945 10804 0.004072509 10782 22 100%
1946 14068 0.004402707 14038 30 100%
1947 15441 0.004286402 15409 32 100%
1948 14193 0.004110913 14162 31 100%
1949 14471 0.004152634 14453 18 100%
1950 15035 0.004291597 15010 25 100%
1951 15982 0.004338527 15959 23 100%
1952 14995 0.003948126 14978 17 100%
1953 14650 0.003801597 14627 23 100%
1954 13530 0.003398893 13505 25 100%
1955 13215 0.003291342 13178 37 99%
1956 13048 0.003164658 13017 31 100%
1957 11993 0.00285402 11968 25 100%
1958 10916 0.002640603 10888 28 99%
1959 10516 0.002529105 10489 27 99%
1960 9666 0.002327017 9621 45 99%
1961 8756 0.002113801 8724 32 99%
1962 7846 0.001944307 7822 24 99%
1963 7099 0.001793492 7072 27 99%
1964 6189 0.001591983 6162 27 99%
1965 5050 0.001392931 5031 19 99%
1966 4358 0.001253864 4345 13 99%
1967 3524 0.001038029 3514 10 99%
1968 3054 0.000903975 3043 11 99%
1969 2640 0.000759642 2631 9 99%
1970 2345 0.000650212 2331 14 99%
1971 2159 0.000629014 2144 15 99%
1972 1727 0.000549476 1713 14 98%
1973 1486 0.000492561 1475 11 99%
1974 1329 0.000437171 1323 6 99%
1975 1316 0.000435849 1310 6 99%
1976 1160 0.000382296 1155 5 99%
1977 1143 0.000359831 1143 100%
1978 1169 0.00036832 1162 7 99%
1979 1084 0.000325819 1078 6 99%
1980 1004 0.000291479 1004 100%
1981 890 0.000257272 890 100%
1982 880 0.000250858 880 100%
1983 778 0.000224639 772 6 98%
1984 758 0.000217269 758 100%
1985 696 0.000195007 688 8 98%
1986 666 0.000187232 657 9 97%
1987 675 0.000187208 669 6 98%
1988 636 0.000172122 631 5 98%
1989 546 0.000142023 546 100%
1990 514 0.000130045 514 100%
1991 484 0.000124253 484 100%
1992 463 0.000120533 463 100%
1993 450 0.000119355 450 100%
1994 420 0.000112974 420 100%
1995 362 0.000098849 362 100%
1996 338 0.000092674 338 100%
1997 311 0.000085775 311 100%
1998 311 0.000084552 311 100%
1999 298 0.000080674 298 100%
2000 310 0.000082013 310 100%
2001 273 0.000072929 273 100%
2002 325 0.000086938 325 100%
2003 245 0.000064434 245 100%
2004 285 0.000074589 285 100%
2005 238 0.000061901 238 100%
2006 260 0.00006572 260 100%
2007 286 0.000071541 286 100%
2008 254 0.00006462 254 100%
2009 331 0.000086645 331 100%
2010 236 0.000063857 236 100%
2011 192 0.000052491 192 100%
2012 192 0.000052497 192 100%
2013 188 0.000051568 188 100%
2014 178 0.000048025 178 100%
2015 198 0.0000535 198 100%
2016 165 0.000044975 165 100%
2017 148 0.000041385 148 100%
2018 154 0.000043801 154 100%
2019 141 0.000040623 141 100%
2020 97 0.000029037 97 100%
2021 86 0.000025384 86 100%
2022 90 0.000026603 90 100%
2023 98 0.000029597 98 100%
2024 83 0.000024936 83 100%

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