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How popular is “Montana” in the USA?

Number of people named “Montana” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Montana” by birth year

This chart shows how “Montana” 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
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 100%
1918 13 0.000005988 13 100%
1919 17 0.000008056 17 100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 18 0.000005961 9 9 0%
1976 24 0.00000791 16 8 33%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 7 12 -26%
1979 21 0.000006312 11 10 5%
1980 21 0.000006097 10 11 -5%
1981 20 0.000005781 10 10 0%
1982 36 0.000010262 9 27 -50%
1983 31 0.000008951 16 15 3%
1984 35 0.000010032 8 27 -54%
1985 106 0.000029699 52 54 -2%
1986 89 0.000025021 46 43 3%
1987 87 0.000024129 47 40 8%
1988 111 0.00003004 75 36 35%
1989 165 0.000042919 92 73 12%
1990 176 0.000044529 97 79 10%
1991 210 0.000053912 117 93 11%
1992 300 0.000078099 182 118 21%
1993 350 0.000092831 225 125 29%
1994 516 0.000138797 331 185 28%
1995 535 0.000146089 341 194 27%
1996 562 0.000154091 374 188 33%
1997 639 0.000176239 458 181 43%
1998 678 0.000184329 496 182 46%
1999 603 0.000163244 462 141 53%
2000 573 0.000151591 432 141 51%
2001 517 0.00013811 374 143 45%
2002 490 0.000131076 366 124 49%
2003 389 0.000102306 304 85 56%
2004 340 0.000088984 238 102 40%
2005 315 0.000081928 226 89 43%
2006 381 0.000096305 306 75 61%
2007 355 0.000088801 290 65 63%
2008 234 0.000059532 192 42 64%
2009 161 0.000042145 129 32 60%
2010 113 0.000030576 80 33 42%
2011 127 0.00003472 99 28 56%
2012 133 0.000036365 87 46 31%
2013 145 0.000039773 104 41 43%
2014 176 0.000047486 126 50 43%
2015 201 0.000054311 128 73 27%
2016 200 0.000054515 138 62 38%
2017 184 0.000051451 115 69 25%
2018 211 0.000060013 113 98 7%
2019 231 0.000066553 120 111 4%
2020 226 0.000067653 116 110 3%
2021 260 0.000076743 150 110 15%
2022 290 0.000085719 184 106 27%
2023 284 0.00008577 174 110 23%
2024 337 0.000101247 235 102 39%

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