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How popular is “Kirby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kirby” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kirby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kirby” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1885 14 0.000058127 14 -100%
1886 10 0.000039167 10 -100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 -100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 -100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 -100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 -100%
1892 10 0.000029907 10 -100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 -100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 -100%
1896 10 0.000027973 10 -100%
1897 13 0.000037469 13 -100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 -100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 -100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 8 0.000018871 8 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1907 12 0.000025785 12 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 18 0.000027938 18 -100%
1912 25 0.000025302 25 -100%
1913 30 0.000026383 30 -100%
1914 38 0.00002683 38 -100%
1915 59 0.000032198 59 -100%
1916 55 0.000028432 55 -100%
1917 67 0.000033387 8 59 -76%
1918 52 0.000023951 52 -100%
1919 54 0.000025589 54 -100%
1920 60 0.000026518 60 -100%
1921 58 0.000024845 58 -100%
1922 62 0.000027084 62 -100%
1923 67 0.000029099 6 61 -82%
1924 71 0.000029812 71 -100%
1925 53 0.000022715 5 48 -81%
1926 77 0.000033538 77 -100%
1927 53 0.000022851 53 -100%
1928 59 0.000026095 59 -100%
1929 71 0.000032388 71 -100%
1930 66 0.000029686 66 -100%
1931 51 0.000024235 51 -100%
1932 70 0.000033155 6 64 -83%
1933 68 0.000034009 9 59 -74%
1934 74 0.000035631 74 -100%
1935 68 0.000032537 68 -100%
1936 82 0.000039469 82 -100%
1937 97 0.000045526 97 -100%
1938 74 0.000033445 74 -100%
1939 96 0.000043568 96 -100%
1940 114 0.000049507 12 102 -79%
1941 126 0.000051715 6 120 -90%
1942 142 0.00005198 6 136 -92%
1943 148 0.000052435 9 139 -88%
1944 118 0.000043865 8 110 -86%
1945 115 0.000043349 9 106 -84%
1946 209 0.000065408 18 191 -83%
1947 222 0.000061627 13 209 -88%
1948 208 0.000060246 9 199 -91%
1949 208 0.000059688 11 197 -89%
1950 236 0.000067364 10 226 -92%
1951 252 0.000068409 5 247 -96%
1952 279 0.00007346 14 265 -90%
1953 298 0.000077329 10 288 -93%
1954 333 0.000083653 7 326 -96%
1955 276 0.000068741 5 271 -96%
1956 353 0.000085616 10 343 -94%
1957 378 0.000089954 20 358 -89%
1958 357 0.000086359 15 342 -92%
1959 368 0.000088504 25 343 -86%
1960 360 0.000086667 14 346 -92%
1961 303 0.000073148 13 290 -91%
1962 289 0.000071617 12 277 -92%
1963 262 0.000066192 9 253 -93%
1964 243 0.000062506 13 230 -89%
1965 224 0.000061785 12 212 -89%
1966 199 0.000057255 11 188 -89%
1967 204 0.00006009 12 192 -88%
1968 196 0.000058015 5 191 -95%
1969 180 0.000051794 7 173 -92%
1970 157 0.000043532 9 148 -89%
1971 299 0.000087112 9 290 -94%
1972 282 0.000089723 16 266 -89%
1973 160 0.000053035 9 151 -89%
1974 153 0.000050329 7 146 -91%
1975 152 0.000050341 7 145 -91%
1976 125 0.000041196 7 118 -89%
1977 139 0.000043759 10 129 -86%
1978 100 0.000031507 11 89 -78%
1979 107 0.000032161 107 -100%
1980 110 0.000031935 6 104 -89%
1981 119 0.000034399 8 111 -87%
1982 86 0.000024516 8 78 -81%
1983 379 0.000109432 232 147 22%
1984 509 0.000145897 367 142 44%
1985 352 0.000098624 225 127 28%
1986 291 0.000081809 161 130 11%
1987 269 0.000074606 152 117 13%
1988 338 0.000091474 152 186 -10%
1989 349 0.00009078 153 196 -12%
1990 329 0.000083239 162 167 -2%
1991 320 0.000082151 143 177 -11%
1992 342 0.000089033 148 194 -13%
1993 316 0.000083813 143 173 -9%
1994 251 0.000067516 115 136 -8%
1995 226 0.000061712 97 129 -14%
1996 246 0.000067449 115 131 -7%
1997 180 0.000049645 65 115 -28%
1998 169 0.000045946 69 100 -18%
1999 142 0.000038442 56 86 -21%
2000 123 0.000032541 50 73 -19%
2001 123 0.000032858 41 82 -33%
2002 92 0.00002461 28 64 -39%
2003 81 0.000021303 27 54 -33%
2004 83 0.000021723 23 60 -45%
2005 72 0.000018726 22 50 -39%
2006 75 0.000018958 22 53 -41%
2007 84 0.000021012 20 64 -52%
2008 66 0.000016791 17 49 -48%
2009 72 0.000018847 25 47 -31%
2010 74 0.000020023 24 50 -35%
2011 76 0.000020778 25 51 -34%
2012 78 0.000021327 30 48 -23%
2013 71 0.000019475 27 44 -24%
2014 71 0.000019156 31 40 -13%
2015 83 0.000022427 28 55 -33%
2016 75 0.000020443 31 44 -17%
2017 78 0.000021811 33 45 -15%
2018 97 0.000027589 46 51 -5%
2019 77 0.000022184 34 43 -12%
2020 91 0.000027241 39 52 -14%
2021 101 0.000029812 62 39 23%
2022 106 0.000031332 62 44 17%
2023 102 0.000030805 55 47 8%
2024 122 0.000036653 70 52 15%

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