Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Moon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Moon” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Moon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Moon” 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
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2001 11 0.000002939 6 5 9%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 8 5 23%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 8 5 23%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 22 0.000006152 22 100%
2018 44 0.000012515 30 14 36%
2019 32 0.000009219 25 7 56%
2020 38 0.000011375 28 10 47%
2021 68 0.000020071 47 21 38%
2022 95 0.00002808 73 22 54%
2023 81 0.000024462 53 28 31%
2024 63 0.000018927 47 16 49%

Explore other names

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  8. Moonee
  9. Mooney
  10. Moonie
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