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How popular is “Kip” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kip” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kip” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kip” 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
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1943 25 0.000008857 25 -100%
1944 28 0.000010409 28 -100%
1945 42 0.000015832 42 -100%
1946 57 0.000017839 57 -100%
1947 61 0.000016934 6 55 -80%
1948 66 0.000019116 5 61 -85%
1949 68 0.000019513 68 -100%
1950 93 0.000026546 93 -100%
1951 96 0.00002606 96 -100%
1952 99 0.000026066 99 -100%
1953 110 0.000028544 5 105 -91%
1954 127 0.000031904 6 121 -91%
1955 198 0.000049314 10 188 -90%
1956 213 0.000051661 17 196 -84%
1957 218 0.000051878 13 205 -88%
1958 194 0.000046929 9 185 -91%
1959 161 0.000038721 8 153 -90%
1960 175 0.00004213 8 167 -91%
1961 180 0.000043454 7 173 -92%
1962 238 0.000058978 10 228 -92%
1963 269 0.00006796 9 260 -93%
1964 341 0.000087715 8 333 -95%
1965 432 0.000119158 13 419 -94%
1966 314 0.000090343 5 309 -97%
1967 293 0.000086306 293 -100%
1968 256 0.000075775 8 248 -94%
1969 210 0.000060426 210 -100%
1970 185 0.000051296 185 -100%
1971 168 0.000048946 168 -100%
1972 149 0.000047407 149 -100%
1973 150 0.00004972 150 -100%
1974 144 0.000047368 144 -100%
1975 117 0.000038749 117 -100%
1976 120 0.000039548 120 -100%
1977 98 0.000030852 98 -100%
1978 117 0.000036864 117 -100%
1979 102 0.000030658 102 -100%
1980 125 0.00003629 7 118 -89%
1981 126 0.000036423 126 -100%
1982 99 0.000028222 99 -100%
1983 66 0.000019057 66 -100%
1984 104 0.00002981 104 -100%
1985 80 0.000022415 80 -100%
1986 54 0.000015181 54 -100%
1987 56 0.000015531 56 -100%
1988 70 0.000018944 70 -100%
1989 55 0.000014306 55 -100%
1990 62 0.000015686 62 -100%
1991 68 0.000017457 68 -100%
1992 56 0.000014579 56 -100%
1993 38 0.000010079 38 -100%
1994 44 0.000011835 44 -100%
1995 44 0.000012015 44 -100%
1996 41 0.000011242 41 -100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 -100%
1998 37 0.000010059 37 -100%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 -100%
2000 27 0.000007143 27 -100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 -100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 -100%
2003 30 0.00000789 30 -100%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 -100%
2005 25 0.000006502 25 -100%
2006 30 0.000007583 30 -100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 -100%
2008 24 0.000006106 24 -100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 -100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 -100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 -100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 -100%
2013 33 0.000009052 33 -100%
2014 50 0.00001349 50 -100%
2015 46 0.000012429 46 -100%
2016 74 0.000020171 74 -100%
2017 74 0.000020692 74 -100%
2018 76 0.000021616 76 -100%
2019 97 0.000027946 97 -100%
2020 84 0.000025145 84 -100%
2021 101 0.000029812 101 -100%
2022 125 0.000036948 125 -100%
2023 135 0.000040771 135 -100%
2024 124 0.000037254 124 -100%

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