Name Trends

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How popular is “Jennifer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jennifer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jennifer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jennifer” 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
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 100%
1931 26 0.000012355 26 100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 100%
1933 30 0.000015004 30 100%
1934 41 0.000019742 41 100%
1935 36 0.000017226 36 100%
1936 42 0.000020216 42 100%
1937 38 0.000017835 38 100%
1938 51 0.00002305 51 100%
1939 62 0.000028138 62 100%
1940 102 0.000044296 102 100%
1941 136 0.000055819 136 100%
1942 198 0.000072479 198 100%
1943 337 0.000119395 337 100%
1944 684 0.000254268 684 100%
1945 985 0.00037129 985 100%
1946 1739 0.000544236 1733 6 99%
1947 2010 0.000557973 2010 100%
1948 1882 0.000545109 1882 100%
1949 2618 0.000751268 2618 100%
1950 2810 0.000802088 2802 8 99%
1951 2983 0.000809775 2974 9 99%
1952 3532 0.000929962 3526 6 100%
1953 3383 0.00087787 3375 8 100%
1954 3976 0.000998817 3966 10 99%
1955 4123 0.001026879 4123 100%
1956 4718 0.001144302 4710 8 100%
1957 5497 0.001308142 5485 12 100%
1958 5894 0.001425771 5881 13 100%
1959 6242 0.001501205 6232 10 100%
1960 7255 0.001746587 7242 13 100%
1961 9297 0.002244405 9266 31 99%
1962 11001 0.002726143 10977 24 100%
1963 11784 0.002977111 11759 25 100%
1964 12990 0.003341389 12956 34 99%
1965 15240 0.004203617 15206 34 100%
1966 18267 0.0052557 18215 52 99%
1967 18305 0.005391916 18238 67 99%
1968 26917 0.00796735 26851 66 100%
1969 33802 0.009726291 33704 98 99%
1970 46269 0.012829286 46150 119 99%
1971 56965 0.016596477 56771 194 99%
1972 63792 0.02029657 63602 190 99%
1973 62667 0.020772073 62447 220 99%
1974 63291 0.020819414 63106 185 99%
1975 58412 0.019345604 58187 225 99%
1976 59672 0.019665821 59472 200 99%
1977 59143 0.018618956 58964 179 99%
1978 56521 0.017808229 56318 203 99%
1979 56921 0.017108807 56716 205 99%
1980 58589 0.017009405 58378 211 99%
1981 57240 0.016546341 57048 192 99%
1982 57301 0.016334556 57118 183 99%
1983 54551 0.015750986 54355 196 99%
1984 50767 0.01455161 50563 204 99%
1985 42821 0.011997669 42660 161 99%
1986 36352 0.010219624 36189 163 99%
1987 32821 0.00910275 32708 113 99%
1988 28007 0.007579614 27893 114 99%
1989 24150 0.006281788 24004 146 99%
1990 22323 0.005647849 22236 87 99%
1991 20739 0.005324156 20673 66 99%
1992 17877 0.004653926 17819 58 99%
1993 15798 0.004190141 15748 50 99%
1994 14045 0.003777921 14001 44 99%
1995 12738 0.00347828 12683 55 99%
1996 11764 0.003225493 11729 35 99%
1997 11877 0.003275737 11840 37 99%
1998 10718 0.00291392 10692 26 100%
1999 10643 0.002881262 10615 28 99%
2000 9422 0.002492656 9390 32 99%
2001 8947 0.00239008 8921 26 99%
2002 8567 0.002291689 8540 27 99%
2003 7586 0.001995098 7568 18 100%
2004 6568 0.001718956 6545 23 99%
2005 5852 0.001522038 5837 15 99%
2006 5285 0.001335882 5268 17 99%
2007 4660 0.001165675 4653 7 100%
2008 3812 0.00096981 3797 15 99%
2009 2992 0.00078321 2987 5 100%
2010 2628 0.000711089 2622 6 100%
2011 2286 0.000624967 2280 6 99%
2012 1932 0.000528249 1927 5 99%
2013 1692 0.000464113 1692 100%
2014 1527 0.000411993 1521 6 99%
2015 1286 0.000347482 1286 100%
2016 1168 0.000318369 1162 6 99%
2017 1052 0.000294167 1052 100%
2018 921 0.000261953 921 100%
2019 788 0.000227028 788 100%
2020 712 0.000213137 712 100%
2021 638 0.000188315 638 100%
2022 630 0.000186218 630 100%
2023 584 0.000176371 584 100%
2024 552 0.00016584 552 100%