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How popular is “Morrison” in the USA?

Number of people named “Morrison” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Morrison” by birth year

This chart shows how “Morrison” 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
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 12 0.000010553 12 -100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 -100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 -100%
1916 18 0.000009305 18 -100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 -100%
1919 22 0.000010425 22 -100%
1920 23 0.000010165 23 -100%
1921 23 0.000009852 23 -100%
1922 19 0.0000083 19 -100%
1923 25 0.000010858 25 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 -100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 18 0.000007761 18 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 -100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 -100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 -100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 -100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 -100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 13 0.0000049 13 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 -100%
2002 15 0.000004013 15 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 7 9 -13%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 26 0.000006762 5 21 -62%
2006 33 0.000008341 33 -100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 -100%
2008 36 0.000009159 6 30 -67%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 -100%
2010 41 0.000011094 5 36 -76%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 -100%
2012 60 0.000016405 8 52 -73%
2013 45 0.000012343 45 -100%
2014 72 0.000019426 6 66 -83%
2015 88 0.000023778 7 81 -84%
2016 63 0.000017172 7 56 -78%
2017 89 0.000024887 11 78 -75%
2018 90 0.000025598 12 78 -73%
2019 69 0.000019879 8 61 -77%
2020 65 0.000019458 12 53 -63%
2021 68 0.000020071 10 58 -71%
2022 75 0.000022169 9 66 -76%
2023 58 0.000017516 8 50 -72%
2024 38 0.000011417 7 31 -63%

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