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How popular is “Mortimer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mortimer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mortimer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mortimer” 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 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 -100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 -100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 -100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 -100%
1886 14 0.000054834 14 -100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 -100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 -100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 -100%
1891 13 0.000045348 13 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 -100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 -100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1901 10 0.000028917 10 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 13 0.000032219 13 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 12 -100%
1906 9 0.000021006 9 -100%
1907 17 0.000036529 17 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 18 0.000027938 18 -100%
1912 55 0.000055665 55 -100%
1913 57 0.000050127 57 -100%
1914 75 0.000052953 75 -100%
1915 76 0.000041475 76 -100%
1916 91 0.000047043 91 -100%
1917 83 0.00004136 83 -100%
1918 88 0.000040532 88 -100%
1919 91 0.000043123 91 -100%
1920 70 0.000030937 70 -100%
1921 83 0.000035554 83 -100%
1922 79 0.000034511 79 -100%
1923 71 0.000030836 71 -100%
1924 62 0.000026033 62 -100%
1925 58 0.000024857 58 -100%
1926 48 0.000020907 48 -100%
1927 43 0.00001854 43 -100%
1928 47 0.000020788 47 -100%
1929 42 0.000019159 42 -100%
1930 36 0.000016192 36 -100%
1931 20 0.000009504 20 -100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 -100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 -100%
1934 19 0.000009149 19 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 -100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 -100%
1937 18 0.000008448 18 -100%
1938 14 0.000006327 14 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%

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