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How popular is “Ludie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ludie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ludie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ludie” 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 15 0.000074448 15 100%
1881 13 0.000067467 13 100%
1882 21 0.000094794 21 100%
1883 19 0.000087579 19 100%
1884 12 0.000049289 12 100%
1885 20 0.000083038 20 100%
1886 20 0.000078334 20 100%
1887 23 0.00009297 23 100%
1888 31 0.000103515 31 100%
1889 35 0.00012113 35 100%
1890 40 0.000132714 40 100%
1891 31 0.000108137 31 100%
1892 47 0.000140561 42 5 79%
1893 22 0.000067646 22 100%
1894 30 0.000088577 30 100%
1895 32 0.000091163 32 100%
1896 37 0.000103501 37 100%
1897 37 0.000106641 37 100%
1898 37 0.000096997 37 100%
1899 36 0.000106121 36 100%
1900 49 0.000108826 49 100%
1901 31 0.000089644 31 100%
1902 39 0.000100845 39 100%
1903 46 0.000120672 46 100%
1904 47 0.000116485 47 100%
1905 43 0.000101434 43 100%
1906 50 0.000116699 50 100%
1907 51 0.000109586 51 100%
1908 48 0.00009823 48 100%
1909 46 0.00008998 46 100%
1910 46 0.000077872 39 7 70%
1911 39 0.000060533 34 5 74%
1912 77 0.00007793 69 8 79%
1913 52 0.00004573 45 7 73%
1914 71 0.000050129 65 6 83%
1915 65 0.000035472 65 100%
1916 95 0.00004911 82 13 73%
1917 64 0.000031892 57 7 78%
1918 74 0.000034084 63 11 70%
1919 81 0.000038384 66 15 63%
1920 78 0.000034473 69 9 77%
1921 80 0.000034269 70 10 75%
1922 72 0.000031453 64 8 78%
1923 63 0.000027362 54 9 71%
1924 70 0.000029392 63 7 80%
1925 77 0.000033 66 11 71%
1926 62 0.000027005 53 9 71%
1927 53 0.000022851 44 9 66%
1928 46 0.000020346 39 7 70%
1929 38 0.000017334 32 6 68%
1930 49 0.000022039 42 7 71%
1931 38 0.000018058 31 7 63%
1932 40 0.000018946 34 6 70%
1933 50 0.000025007 40 10 60%
1934 32 0.000015408 26 6 63%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 100%
1936 25 0.000012033 20 5 60%
1937 27 0.000012672 27 100%
1938 26 0.000011751 20 6 54%
1939 23 0.000010438 18 5 57%
1940 26 0.000011291 21 5 62%
1941 16 0.000006567 16 100%
1942 27 0.000009884 22 5 63%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 100%
1944 21 0.000007806 21 100%
1945 25 0.000009424 20 5 60%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 100%
1947 26 0.000007218 15 11 15%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 21 0.000006026 14 7 33%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 15 0.000003638 10 5 33%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1964 12 0.000003087 6 6 0%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%

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