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How popular is “Monroe” in the USA?

Number of people named “Monroe” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Monroe” by birth year

This chart shows how “Monroe” 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 53 0.000263048 53 -100%
1881 58 0.000301005 58 -100%
1882 76 0.000343064 76 -100%
1883 46 0.000212034 46 -100%
1884 56 0.000230016 56 -100%
1885 54 0.000224202 54 -100%
1886 73 0.00028592 73 -100%
1887 56 0.000226361 56 -100%
1888 74 0.0002471 74 -100%
1889 68 0.000235338 68 -100%
1890 53 0.000175845 53 -100%
1891 47 0.00016395 47 -100%
1892 58 0.000173458 58 -100%
1893 63 0.000193713 63 -100%
1894 58 0.000171248 58 -100%
1895 63 0.000179477 63 -100%
1896 63 0.000176232 63 -100%
1897 58 0.000167168 58 -100%
1898 58 0.000152049 58 -100%
1899 44 0.000129704 44 -100%
1900 89 0.000197664 89 -100%
1901 62 0.000179288 62 -100%
1902 59 0.00015256 59 -100%
1903 67 0.000175761 67 -100%
1904 64 0.000158618 64 -100%
1905 79 0.000186355 79 -100%
1906 72 0.000168047 72 -100%
1907 72 0.000154709 72 -100%
1908 81 0.000165763 81 -100%
1909 75 0.000146707 75 -100%
1910 78 0.000132044 78 -100%
1911 91 0.000141243 91 -100%
1912 175 0.000177114 175 -100%
1913 210 0.000184679 210 -100%
1914 251 0.000177217 251 -100%
1915 310 0.000169175 310 -100%
1916 300 0.000155085 300 -100%
1917 334 0.000166438 334 -100%
1918 362 0.000166735 362 -100%
1919 339 0.000160645 339 -100%
1920 359 0.000158664 359 -100%
1921 375 0.000160634 375 -100%
1922 354 0.000154642 354 -100%
1923 334 0.000145061 334 -100%
1924 293 0.000123026 293 -100%
1925 303 0.000129859 303 -100%
1926 320 0.000139379 320 -100%
1927 302 0.000130208 302 -100%
1928 288 0.000127381 8 280 -94%
1929 274 0.000124991 274 -100%
1930 261 0.000117394 261 -100%
1931 248 0.000117849 248 -100%
1932 200 0.000094729 200 -100%
1933 219 0.00010953 219 -100%
1934 213 0.000102561 213 -100%
1935 210 0.000100483 210 -100%
1936 223 0.000107337 223 -100%
1937 194 0.000091051 194 -100%
1938 210 0.000094912 6 204 -94%
1939 191 0.000086683 191 -100%
1940 197 0.000085552 197 -100%
1941 183 0.00007511 183 -100%
1942 188 0.000068819 188 -100%
1943 206 0.000072983 206 -100%
1944 185 0.000068771 185 -100%
1945 154 0.000058049 154 -100%
1946 186 0.00005821 186 -100%
1947 205 0.000056908 205 -100%
1948 190 0.000055032 190 -100%
1949 167 0.000047923 167 -100%
1950 125 0.00003568 125 -100%
1951 151 0.000040991 6 145 -92%
1952 170 0.00004476 170 -100%
1953 149 0.000038665 149 -100%
1954 113 0.000028387 113 -100%
1955 137 0.000034121 137 -100%
1956 124 0.000030075 124 -100%
1957 127 0.000030223 127 -100%
1958 93 0.000022497 93 -100%
1959 96 0.000023088 96 -100%
1960 74 0.000017815 74 -100%
1961 86 0.000020761 86 -100%
1962 77 0.000019081 77 -100%
1963 88 0.000022232 88 -100%
1964 76 0.000019549 76 -100%
1965 68 0.000018756 68 -100%
1966 70 0.00002014 70 -100%
1967 70 0.000020619 70 -100%
1968 75 0.0000222 75 -100%
1969 69 0.000019854 69 -100%
1970 70 0.000019409 70 -100%
1971 74 0.00002156 74 -100%
1972 39 0.000012409 39 -100%
1973 62 0.000020551 62 -100%
1974 53 0.000017434 53 -100%
1975 44 0.000014572 44 -100%
1976 45 0.00001483 45 -100%
1977 55 0.000017315 55 -100%
1978 41 0.000012918 41 -100%
1979 51 0.000015329 51 -100%
1980 40 0.000011613 40 -100%
1981 48 0.000013875 48 -100%
1982 45 0.000012828 45 -100%
1983 49 0.000014148 49 -100%
1984 30 0.000008599 30 -100%
1985 41 0.000011487 41 -100%
1986 40 0.000011245 40 -100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 -100%
1988 29 0.000007848 29 -100%
1989 35 0.000009104 35 -100%
1990 38 0.000009614 38 -100%
1991 35 0.000008985 35 -100%
1992 32 0.000008331 32 -100%
1993 32 0.000008487 32 -100%
1994 38 0.000010222 38 -100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 -100%
1996 39 0.000010693 10 29 -49%
1997 41 0.000011308 9 32 -56%
1998 34 0.000009244 10 24 -41%
1999 37 0.000010017 7 30 -62%
2000 38 0.000010053 7 31 -63%
2001 42 0.00001122 9 33 -57%
2002 44 0.00001177 15 29 -32%
2003 41 0.000010783 13 28 -37%
2004 48 0.000012562 26 22 8%
2005 62 0.000016125 24 38 -23%
2006 68 0.000017188 32 36 -6%
2007 79 0.000019761 38 41 -4%
2008 77 0.00001959 37 40 -4%
2009 103 0.000026962 61 42 18%
2010 132 0.000035717 94 38 42%
2011 186 0.00005085 143 43 54%
2012 346 0.000094604 267 79 54%
2013 467 0.000128097 356 111 52%
2014 478 0.000128967 359 119 50%
2015 538 0.00014537 396 142 47%
2016 547 0.000149099 418 129 53%
2017 561 0.000156871 428 133 53%
2018 619 0.000176057 502 117 62%
2019 623 0.000179491 510 113 64%
2020 670 0.000200564 555 115 66%
2021 776 0.000229047 587 189 51%
2022 682 0.000201588 567 115 66%
2023 715 0.000215934 574 141 61%
2024 682 0.000204897 529 153 55%

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