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How popular is “Morgan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Morgan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Morgan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Morgan” 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 33 0.000163785 33 -100%
1881 23 0.000119364 23 -100%
1882 24 0.000108336 24 -100%
1883 19 0.000087579 19 -100%
1884 33 0.000135545 33 -100%
1885 26 0.000107949 26 -100%
1886 32 0.000125335 32 -100%
1887 17 0.000068717 17 -100%
1888 21 0.000070123 21 -100%
1889 24 0.000083061 24 -100%
1890 23 0.00007631 23 -100%
1891 19 0.000066278 19 -100%
1892 21 0.000062804 21 -100%
1893 22 0.000067646 22 -100%
1894 32 0.000094482 32 -100%
1895 26 0.00007407 26 -100%
1896 25 0.000069933 25 -100%
1897 29 0.000083584 29 -100%
1898 28 0.000073403 28 -100%
1899 30 0.000088435 30 -100%
1900 31 0.000068849 31 -100%
1901 16 0.000046268 16 -100%
1902 23 0.000059473 23 -100%
1903 26 0.000068206 26 -100%
1904 18 0.000044611 18 -100%
1905 30 0.000070768 30 -100%
1906 25 0.00005835 25 -100%
1907 21 0.000045123 21 -100%
1908 33 0.000067533 33 -100%
1909 34 0.000066507 34 -100%
1910 45 0.000076179 45 -100%
1911 54 0.000083815 54 -100%
1912 78 0.000078942 78 -100%
1913 106 0.000093219 106 -100%
1914 125 0.000088255 125 -100%
1915 136 0.000074219 136 -100%
1916 155 0.000080128 155 -100%
1917 179 0.000089199 179 -100%
1918 173 0.000079683 5 168 -94%
1919 138 0.000065395 138 -100%
1920 160 0.000070714 160 -100%
1921 184 0.000078818 184 -100%
1922 144 0.000062905 144 -100%
1923 154 0.000066884 154 -100%
1924 155 0.000065082 155 -100%
1925 160 0.000068572 160 -100%
1926 154 0.000067076 154 -100%
1927 147 0.00006338 147 -100%
1928 131 0.000057941 131 -100%
1929 138 0.000062952 138 -100%
1930 108 0.000048577 108 -100%
1931 135 0.000064152 135 -100%
1932 140 0.00006631 140 -100%
1933 122 0.000061017 122 -100%
1934 123 0.000059225 123 -100%
1935 131 0.000062682 131 -100%
1936 119 0.000057278 119 -100%
1937 107 0.000050219 5 102 -91%
1938 116 0.000052428 116 -100%
1939 104 0.000047199 104 -100%
1940 130 0.000056456 130 -100%
1941 100 0.000041044 100 -100%
1942 114 0.00004173 114 -100%
1943 123 0.000043577 123 -100%
1944 134 0.000049813 6 128 -91%
1945 112 0.000042218 112 -100%
1946 158 0.000049448 11 147 -86%
1947 175 0.00004858 175 -100%
1948 124 0.000035916 124 -100%
1949 126 0.000036157 5 121 -92%
1950 126 0.000035965 5 121 -92%
1951 165 0.000044791 12 153 -85%
1952 175 0.000046077 6 169 -93%
1953 157 0.000040741 7 150 -91%
1954 190 0.00004773 11 179 -88%
1955 214 0.000053299 16 198 -85%
1956 209 0.000050691 12 197 -89%
1957 195 0.000046405 10 185 -90%
1958 214 0.000051767 22 192 -79%
1959 239 0.00005748 15 224 -87%
1960 277 0.000066686 26 251 -81%
1961 236 0.000056973 33 203 -72%
1962 268 0.000066413 14 254 -90%
1963 240 0.000060634 21 219 -82%
1964 267 0.00006868 43 224 -68%
1965 251 0.000069233 44 207 -65%
1966 257 0.000073943 34 223 -74%
1967 313 0.000092197 42 271 -73%
1968 298 0.000088207 35 263 -77%
1969 395 0.000113658 62 333 -69%
1970 412 0.000114238 75 337 -64%
1971 391 0.000113916 80 311 -59%
1972 361 0.000114859 58 303 -68%
1973 346 0.000114688 91 255 -47%
1974 371 0.00012204 95 276 -49%
1975 396 0.000131152 114 282 -42%
1976 447 0.000147316 144 303 -36%
1977 581 0.000182906 211 370 -27%
1978 648 0.000204167 258 390 -20%
1979 946 0.00028434 443 503 -6%
1980 1763 0.00051183 1061 702 20%
1981 2534 0.000732502 1768 766 40%
1982 2348 0.000669334 1716 632 46%
1983 2281 0.000658613 1658 623 45%
1984 2875 0.000824076 2175 700 51%
1985 2965 0.000830739 2283 682 54%
1986 3151 0.000885839 2477 674 57%
1987 3698 0.001025623 2928 770 58%
1988 4625 0.001251677 3796 829 64%
1989 5253 0.001366386 4426 827 69%
1990 6983 0.00176674 6047 936 73%
1991 7700 0.001976759 6794 906 76%
1992 8778 0.00228518 7789 989 77%
1993 9435 0.002502467 8573 862 82%
1994 11678 0.003141229 10655 1023 82%
1995 12135 0.003313623 10877 1258 79%
1996 11511 0.003156124 10295 1216 79%
1997 11404 0.003145281 10342 1062 81%
1998 11168 0.003036262 10217 951 83%
1999 10504 0.002843632 9607 897 83%
2000 10341 0.002735784 9502 839 84%
2001 9518 0.002542615 8735 783 84%
2002 9142 0.002445502 8433 709 84%
2003 8676 0.002281765 7928 748 83%
2004 8306 0.00217382 7295 1011 76%
2005 7650 0.001989677 6749 901 76%
2006 7316 0.001849254 6495 821 78%
2007 6394 0.001599426 5665 729 77%
2008 6047 0.001538416 5333 714 76%
2009 5203 0.00136198 4611 592 77%
2010 4575 0.001237912 4076 499 78%
2011 4147 0.001133744 3672 475 77%
2012 3844 0.001051029 3403 441 77%
2013 3483 0.000955381 3116 367 79%
2014 3410 0.000920036 3006 404 76%
2015 3069 0.000829255 2688 381 75%
2016 2749 0.000749312 2339 410 70%
2017 2297 0.000642303 1927 370 68%
2018 2079 0.000591314 1759 320 69%
2019 1983 0.000571316 1649 334 66%
2020 1858 0.000556191 1491 367 60%
2021 1902 0.000561402 1447 455 52%
2022 1933 0.000571364 1383 550 43%
2023 1777 0.000536664 1247 530 40%
2024 1701 0.000511041 1141 560 34%

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