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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lumen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lumen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lumen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lumen” 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
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 28 0.000007656 28 100%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 100%
2014 43 0.000011602 36 7 67%
2015 43 0.000011619 43 100%
2016 37 0.000010085 37 100%
2017 44 0.000012304 39 5 77%
2018 47 0.000013368 37 10 57%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 100%
2020 44 0.000013171 34 10 55%
2021 36 0.000010626 36 100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 100%
2023 44 0.000013288 33 11 50%
2024 28 0.000008412 15 13 7%

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