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How popular is “Kitty” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kitty” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kitty” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kitty” 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
1880 9 0.000044669 9 100%
1881 22 0.000114174 22 100%
1882 19 0.000085766 19 100%
1883 16 0.000073751 16 100%
1884 16 0.000065719 16 100%
1885 18 0.000074734 18 100%
1886 31 0.000121418 31 100%
1887 33 0.000133392 33 100%
1888 28 0.000093497 28 100%
1889 28 0.000096904 28 100%
1890 27 0.000089582 27 100%
1891 29 0.000101161 29 100%
1892 29 0.000086729 29 100%
1893 31 0.000095319 31 100%
1894 29 0.000085624 29 100%
1895 30 0.000085465 30 100%
1896 35 0.000097906 35 100%
1897 30 0.000086466 30 100%
1898 37 0.000096997 37 100%
1899 25 0.000073695 25 100%
1900 39 0.000086617 39 100%
1901 32 0.000092536 32 100%
1902 39 0.000100845 39 100%
1903 29 0.000076076 29 100%
1904 23 0.000057003 23 100%
1905 33 0.000077845 33 100%
1906 37 0.000086358 37 100%
1907 38 0.000081652 38 100%
1908 32 0.000065487 32 100%
1909 41 0.0000802 41 100%
1910 46 0.000077872 46 100%
1911 48 0.000074502 48 100%
1912 55 0.000055665 55 100%
1913 58 0.000051007 58 100%
1914 81 0.000057189 81 100%
1915 105 0.000057301 105 100%
1916 89 0.000046009 89 100%
1917 91 0.000045347 91 100%
1918 97 0.000044678 97 100%
1919 89 0.000042175 89 100%
1920 85 0.000037567 85 100%
1921 83 0.000035554 83 100%
1922 95 0.0000415 95 100%
1923 107 0.000046472 107 100%
1924 127 0.000053325 127 100%
1925 127 0.000054429 127 100%
1926 127 0.000055316 127 100%
1927 117 0.000050445 117 100%
1928 122 0.00005396 122 100%
1929 119 0.000054284 119 100%
1930 114 0.000051275 114 100%
1931 123 0.000058449 123 100%
1932 126 0.000059679 126 100%
1933 121 0.000060517 121 100%
1934 123 0.000059225 123 100%
1935 130 0.000062204 130 100%
1936 105 0.00005054 105 100%
1937 106 0.00004975 106 100%
1938 136 0.000061467 136 100%
1939 121 0.000054914 121 100%
1940 150 0.000065141 150 100%
1941 172 0.000070595 172 100%
1942 168 0.000061498 168 100%
1943 182 0.00006448 182 100%
1944 174 0.000064682 174 100%
1945 210 0.000079158 210 100%
1946 294 0.00009201 294 100%
1947 358 0.00009938 358 100%
1948 288 0.000083417 288 100%
1949 238 0.000068297 238 100%
1950 228 0.00006508 228 100%
1951 228 0.000061894 228 100%
1952 193 0.000050816 193 100%
1953 209 0.000054234 209 100%
1954 220 0.000055267 220 100%
1955 269 0.000066997 269 100%
1956 277 0.000067183 277 100%
1957 261 0.000062111 261 100%
1958 357 0.000086359 357 100%
1959 311 0.000074796 311 100%
1960 263 0.000063315 263 100%
1961 231 0.000055766 231 100%
1962 235 0.000058235 235 100%
1963 186 0.000046991 186 100%
1964 169 0.000043471 169 100%
1965 127 0.00003503 127 100%
1966 126 0.000036252 126 100%
1967 88 0.000025921 88 100%
1968 77 0.000022792 77 100%
1969 73 0.000021005 73 100%
1970 84 0.000023291 84 100%
1971 68 0.000019811 68 100%
1972 66 0.000020999 66 100%
1973 65 0.000021545 65 100%
1974 62 0.000020395 62 100%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 100%
1976 42 0.000013842 42 100%
1977 62 0.000019518 62 100%
1978 57 0.000017959 57 100%
1979 54 0.000016231 54 100%
1980 43 0.000012484 43 100%
1981 48 0.000013875 48 100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 100%
1983 29 0.000008373 29 100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 100%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 100%
1988 29 0.000007848 29 100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 100%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 100%
1991 30 0.000007702 30 100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 18 0.000004894 18 100%
1999 26 0.000007039 26 100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 23 0.000006019 23 100%
2005 16 0.000004161 16 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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