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How popular is “Mildred” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mildred” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mildred” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mildred” 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 132 0.000655139 132 100%
1881 154 0.000799219 154 100%
1882 172 0.000776408 172 100%
1883 183 0.000843528 183 100%
1884 247 0.001014536 247 100%
1885 245 0.001017214 245 100%
1886 289 0.001131931 289 100%
1887 373 0.001507729 373 100%
1888 499 0.001666255 499 100%
1889 630 0.002180338 625 5 98%
1890 641 0.002126735 635 6 98%
1891 761 0.002654593 761 100%
1892 959 0.002868046 959 100%
1893 1008 0.003099412 1008 100%
1894 1226 0.003619829 1220 6 99%
1895 1480 0.004216284 1474 6 99%
1896 1629 0.004556847 1620 9 99%
1897 1729 0.004983326 1723 6 99%
1898 2109 0.00552883 2101 8 99%
1899 2297 0.006771137 2291 6 99%
1900 2813 0.006247529 2800 13 99%
1901 2431 0.007029831 2424 7 99%
1902 2764 0.00714705 2750 14 99%
1903 3109 0.008155824 3088 21 99%
1904 3538 0.008768603 3525 13 99%
1905 3775 0.00890494 3758 17 99%
1906 3887 0.009072216 3873 14 99%
1907 4291 0.009220224 4277 14 99%
1908 4644 0.009503754 4624 20 99%
1909 5073 0.009923243 5054 19 99%
1910 5710 0.009666317 5692 18 99%
1911 6298 0.009775284 6271 27 99%
1912 8786 0.008892154 8764 22 99%
1913 9952 0.008752012 9921 31 99%
1914 11686 0.00825082 11649 37 99%
1915 15292 0.008345221 15254 38 100%
1916 15677 0.008104251 15633 44 99%
1917 16302 0.008123583 16256 46 99%
1918 17300 0.00796827 17258 42 100%
1919 17344 0.008218951 17300 44 99%
1920 18099 0.007999052 18060 39 100%
1921 17922 0.007677002 17880 42 100%
1922 16454 0.007187802 16412 42 99%
1923 16040 0.006966399 15989 51 99%
1924 15897 0.006674896 15853 44 99%
1925 14498 0.006213512 14453 45 99%
1926 13600 0.00592359 13548 52 99%
1927 13103 0.005649408 13053 50 99%
1928 11704 0.005176613 11652 52 99%
1929 10307 0.004701753 10255 52 99%
1930 9392 0.004224374 9355 37 99%
1931 8219 0.003905649 8170 49 99%
1932 7686 0.003640427 7643 43 99%
1933 6612 0.003306914 6569 43 99%
1934 6214 0.00299208 6180 34 99%
1935 5578 0.002669027 5546 32 99%
1936 5088 0.002449006 5052 36 99%
1937 4665 0.002189452 4645 20 99%
1938 4477 0.002023435 4440 37 98%
1939 4157 0.001886594 4137 20 99%
1940 3970 0.001724074 3938 32 98%
1941 3870 0.001588393 3847 23 99%
1942 3819 0.00139797 3807 12 99%
1943 3640 0.00128961 3626 14 99%
1944 3333 0.001238997 3318 15 99%
1945 2968 0.001118771 2960 8 99%
1946 3079 0.000963601 3066 13 99%
1947 3127 0.000868051 3118 9 99%
1948 2762 0.000799996 2755 7 99%
1949 2642 0.000758155 2634 8 99%
1950 2301 0.000656798 2296 5 100%
1951 2190 0.000594505 2184 6 99%
1952 2057 0.0005416 2051 6 99%
1953 1942 0.000503939 1942 100%
1954 1840 0.000462229 1835 5 99%
1955 1652 0.000411449 1642 10 99%
1956 1644 0.000398735 1636 8 99%
1957 1414 0.000336495 1409 5 99%
1958 1317 0.000318585 1312 5 99%
1959 1266 0.000304474 1266 100%
1960 1088 0.000261928 1081 7 99%
1961 995 0.000240205 995 100%
1962 965 0.000239135 965 100%
1963 902 0.000227881 902 100%
1964 846 0.000217615 846 100%
1965 749 0.000206595 749 100%
1966 659 0.000189605 659 100%
1967 571 0.000168194 571 100%
1968 476 0.000140895 476 100%
1969 456 0.000131211 451 5 98%
1970 489 0.000135588 482 7 97%
1971 388 0.000113042 388 100%
1972 339 0.000107859 339 100%
1973 311 0.000103086 311 100%
1974 300 0.000098684 300 100%
1975 256 0.000084785 256 100%
1976 239 0.000078766 239 100%
1977 204 0.000064222 204 100%
1978 179 0.000056398 179 100%
1979 160 0.000048091 160 100%
1980 159 0.00004616 159 100%
1981 155 0.000044806 155 100%
1982 175 0.000049887 175 100%
1983 138 0.000039846 138 100%
1984 150 0.000042995 150 100%
1985 107 0.000029979 107 100%
1986 128 0.000035985 128 100%
1987 116 0.000032172 116 100%
1988 123 0.000033288 123 100%
1989 127 0.000033035 127 100%
1990 109 0.000027578 109 100%
1991 122 0.00003132 122 100%
1992 101 0.000026293 101 100%
1993 89 0.000023606 89 100%
1994 77 0.000020712 77 100%
1995 84 0.000022937 84 100%
1996 79 0.00002166 79 100%
1997 69 0.000019031 69 100%
1998 80 0.00002175 80 100%
1999 63 0.000017055 63 100%
2000 81 0.000021429 81 100%
2001 75 0.000020035 75 100%
2002 83 0.000022203 83 100%
2003 90 0.00002367 90 100%
2004 80 0.000020937 80 100%
2005 73 0.000018986 73 100%
2006 76 0.00001921 76 100%
2007 93 0.000023263 93 100%
2008 87 0.000022134 87 100%
2009 69 0.000018062 69 100%
2010 69 0.00001867 69 100%
2011 70 0.000019137 70 100%
2012 64 0.000017499 64 100%
2013 74 0.000020298 74 100%
2014 82 0.000022124 82 100%
2015 88 0.000023778 88 100%
2016 79 0.000021534 79 100%
2017 83 0.000023209 83 100%
2018 93 0.000026451 93 100%
2019 77 0.000022184 77 100%
2020 96 0.000028738 96 100%
2021 102 0.000030107 102 100%
2022 108 0.000031923 108 100%
2023 109 0.000032919 109 100%
2024 91 0.00002734 91 100%