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How popular is “Luther” in the USA?

Number of people named “Luther” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Luther” by birth year

This chart shows how “Luther” 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 260 0.001290425 260 -100%
1881 249 0.001292244 249 -100%
1882 284 0.001281976 284 -100%
1883 229 0.001055562 229 -100%
1884 273 0.001121329 273 -100%
1885 259 0.00107534 259 -100%
1886 253 0.000990929 253 -100%
1887 267 0.001079259 267 -100%
1888 275 0.000918277 275 -100%
1889 270 0.000934431 270 -100%
1890 253 0.000839413 253 -100%
1891 236 0.000823238 236 -100%
1892 295 0.000882246 295 -100%
1893 271 0.000833274 271 -100%
1894 285 0.000841477 285 -100%
1895 269 0.000766338 269 -100%
1896 265 0.000741292 265 -100%
1897 271 0.000781077 271 -100%
1898 275 0.000720924 275 -100%
1899 248 0.000731059 248 -100%
1900 316 0.00070182 316 -100%
1901 244 0.000705586 244 -100%
1902 266 0.000687813 266 -100%
1903 265 0.000695173 265 -100%
1904 286 0.000708824 286 -100%
1905 308 0.000726549 308 -100%
1906 262 0.000611505 262 -100%
1907 285 0.00061239 5 280 -96%
1908 292 0.000597566 292 -100%
1909 347 0.000678763 347 -100%
1910 383 0.000648371 383 -100%
1911 400 0.00062085 6 394 -97%
1912 664 0.000672023 664 -100%
1913 754 0.000663085 7 747 -98%
1914 998 0.000704631 7 991 -99%
1915 1205 0.000657598 7 1198 -99%
1916 1293 0.000668418 6 1287 -99%
1917 1314 0.00065479 10 1304 -98%
1918 1424 0.000655885 8 1416 -99%
1919 1393 0.000660113 15 1378 -98%
1920 1390 0.000614326 11 1379 -98%
1921 1464 0.000627114 11 1453 -98%
1922 1490 0.000650895 13 1477 -98%
1923 1347 0.000585021 14 1333 -98%
1924 1413 0.000593296 17 1396 -98%
1925 1352 0.000579436 19 1333 -97%
1926 1319 0.000574501 24 1295 -96%
1927 1278 0.000551015 20 1258 -97%
1928 1174 0.000519253 21 1153 -96%
1929 1137 0.000518666 17 1120 -97%
1930 1125 0.000506007 16 1109 -97%
1931 970 0.000460942 12 958 -98%
1932 973 0.000460855 12 961 -98%
1933 886 0.000443123 8 878 -98%
1934 870 0.00041891 8 862 -98%
1935 844 0.000403847 12 832 -97%
1936 804 0.000386989 804 -100%
1937 870 0.000408322 7 863 -98%
1938 833 0.000376485 5 828 -99%
1939 773 0.000350815 8 765 -98%
1940 833 0.000361752 9 824 -98%
1941 851 0.000349282 8 843 -98%
1942 863 0.000315907 5 858 -99%
1943 848 0.000300437 5 843 -99%
1944 859 0.000319321 6 853 -99%
1945 714 0.000269138 6 708 -98%
1946 809 0.000253184 809 -100%
1947 826 0.000229297 826 -100%
1948 839 0.000243011 8 831 -98%
1949 749 0.000214935 5 744 -99%
1950 769 0.000219504 7 762 -98%
1951 683 0.000185409 683 -100%
1952 747 0.000196682 6 741 -98%
1953 692 0.00017957 5 687 -99%
1954 678 0.000170321 8 670 -98%
1955 702 0.000174841 6 696 -98%
1956 612 0.000148434 612 -100%
1957 584 0.000138977 584 -100%
1958 532 0.000128692 9 523 -97%
1959 522 0.000125541 522 -100%
1960 528 0.000127112 528 -100%
1961 491 0.000118533 491 -100%
1962 460 0.000113992 460 -100%
1963 443 0.00011192 443 -100%
1964 449 0.000115495 449 -100%
1965 395 0.000108952 395 -100%
1966 370 0.000106455 6 364 -97%
1967 290 0.000085422 5 285 -97%
1968 319 0.000094423 319 -100%
1969 340 0.000097833 5 335 -97%
1970 345 0.00009566 345 -100%
1971 316 0.000092065 316 -100%
1972 293 0.000093223 293 -100%
1973 248 0.000082204 248 -100%
1974 242 0.000079605 242 -100%
1975 236 0.000078161 236 -100%
1976 244 0.000080414 244 -100%
1977 234 0.000073666 234 -100%
1978 220 0.000069316 220 -100%
1979 237 0.000071235 237 -100%
1980 206 0.000059805 206 -100%
1981 231 0.000066775 231 -100%
1982 228 0.000064995 228 -100%
1983 213 0.000061501 213 -100%
1984 181 0.000051881 181 -100%
1985 172 0.000048191 172 -100%
1986 185 0.000052009 185 -100%
1987 155 0.000042989 155 -100%
1988 173 0.000046819 173 -100%
1989 190 0.000049422 190 -100%
1990 176 0.000044529 176 -100%
1991 145 0.000037225 145 -100%
1992 136 0.000035405 136 -100%
1993 147 0.000038989 147 -100%
1994 126 0.000033892 126 -100%
1995 105 0.000028672 105 -100%
1996 102 0.000027967 102 -100%
1997 101 0.000027856 101 -100%
1998 107 0.00002909 107 -100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 -100%
2000 103 0.000027249 103 -100%
2001 90 0.000024042 90 -100%
2002 87 0.000023273 87 -100%
2003 81 0.000021303 81 -100%
2004 70 0.00001832 70 -100%
2005 99 0.000025749 99 -100%
2006 91 0.000023002 91 -100%
2007 85 0.000021262 85 -100%
2008 85 0.000021625 85 -100%
2009 78 0.000020418 78 -100%
2010 73 0.000019752 73 -100%
2011 79 0.000021598 79 -100%
2012 80 0.000021874 80 -100%
2013 87 0.000023864 87 -100%
2014 101 0.00002725 101 -100%
2015 99 0.00002675 99 -100%
2016 99 0.000026985 99 -100%
2017 99 0.000027683 99 -100%
2018 113 0.00003214 113 -100%
2019 128 0.000036878 128 -100%
2020 112 0.000033527 112 -100%
2021 132 0.000038962 132 -100%
2022 112 0.000033105 112 -100%
2023 118 0.000035637 118 -100%
2024 119 0.000035752 119 -100%

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