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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kimball” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kimball” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kimball” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kimball” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 15 0.000006515 15 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 -100%
1944 20 0.000007435 20 -100%
1945 20 0.000007539 20 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 -100%
1947 29 0.00000805 29 -100%
1948 21 0.000006083 21 -100%
1949 29 0.000008322 29 -100%
1950 30 0.000008563 30 -100%
1951 55 0.00001493 7 48 -75%
1952 63 0.000016588 6 57 -81%
1953 59 0.00001531 6 53 -80%
1954 66 0.00001658 66 -100%
1955 60 0.000014944 5 55 -83%
1956 58 0.000014067 7 51 -76%
1957 61 0.000014516 17 44 -44%
1958 46 0.000011127 9 37 -61%
1959 37 0.000008899 9 28 -51%
1960 52 0.000012519 9 43 -65%
1961 39 0.000009415 8 31 -59%
1962 29 0.000007186 29 -100%
1963 33 0.000008337 7 26 -58%
1964 36 0.00000926 36 -100%
1965 35 0.000009654 35 -100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 -100%
1967 29 0.000008542 29 -100%
1968 23 0.000006808 23 -100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 -100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 -100%
1971 22 0.00000641 5 17 -55%
1972 25 0.000007954 6 19 -52%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 -100%
1974 19 0.00000625 6 13 -37%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 -100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 -100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 -100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 -100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 20 0.000005604 20 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 18 0.000004686 5 13 -44%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 -100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 -100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 -100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 -100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 -100%
1998 21 0.000005709 21 -100%
1999 22 0.000005956 22 -100%
2000 24 0.000006349 6 18 -50%
2001 32 0.000008548 5 27 -69%
2002 31 0.000008293 5 26 -68%
2003 20 0.00000526 20 -100%
2004 34 0.000008898 34 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 26 0.000006504 26 -100%
2008 26 0.000006615 26 -100%
2009 30 0.000007853 7 23 -53%
2010 22 0.000005953 22 -100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 21 0.00000576 21 -100%
2014 26 0.000007015 5 21 -62%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 15 0.000004266 15 -100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 -100%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 -100%

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