How popular is “Roberta” in the USA?

Number of people named “Roberta” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Roberta” by birth year

This chart shows how “Roberta” 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	34	0.000168748	34		100%
1881	41	0.000212779	41		100%
1882	35	0.00015799	35		100%
1883	48	0.000221253	48		100%
1884	55	0.000225909	55		100%
1885	45	0.000186835	45		100%
1886	72	0.000282003	72		100%
1887	64	0.000258699	64		100%
1888	74	0.0002471	74		100%
1889	73	0.000252642	73		100%
1890	91	0.000301923	91		100%
1891	88	0.00030697	88		100%
1892	86	0.000257197	86		100%
1893	82	0.000252135	82		100%
1894	116	0.000342496	116		100%
1895	130	0.000370349	130		100%
1896	113	0.000316098	113		100%
1897	130	0.000374686	130		100%
1898	144	0.000377502	144		100%
1899	140	0.000412694	140		100%
1900	199	0.000441969	199		100%
1901	165	0.000477138	165		100%
1902	176	0.000455094	176		100%
1903	205	0.000537775	205		100%
1904	211	0.000522944	211		100%
1905	243	0.000573219	243		100%
1906	233	0.00054382	233		100%
1907	291	0.000625282	291		100%
1908	296	0.000605752	296		100%
1909	353	0.0006905	353		100%
1910	433	0.000733015	433		100%
1911	441	0.000684487	441		100%
1912	693	0.000701373	693		100%
1913	755	0.000663964	755		100%
1914	926	0.000653796	921	5	99%
1915	1161	0.000633586	1156	5	99%
1916	1319	0.000681859	1313	6	99%
1917	1433	0.00071409	1426	7	99%
1918	1686	0.000776561	1680	6	99%
1919	1561	0.000739725	1552	9	99%
1920	1643	0.000726142	1636	7	99%
1921	1742	0.000746197	1732	10	99%
1922	1668	0.000728653	1659	9	99%
1923	1663	0.000722264	1658	5	99%
1924	1784	0.000749073	1772	12	99%
1925	1771	0.00075901	1759	12	99%
1926	1889	0.000822769	1877	12	99%
1927	2244	0.000967509	2232	12	99%
1928	1936	0.000856282	1923	13	99%
1929	1985	0.000905499	1971	14	99%
1930	1961	0.000882027	1952	9	99%
1931	1965	0.000933763	1955	10	99%
1932	2256	0.00106854	2243	13	99%
1933	2051	0.001025784	2039	12	99%
1934	2386	0.001148874	2371	15	99%
1935	3201	0.001531652	3180	21	99%
1936	3487	0.001678397	3467	20	99%
1937	3586	0.001683039	3568	18	99%
1938	3563	0.001610342	3547	16	99%
1939	3425	0.001554386	3409	16	99%
1940	3448	0.001497382	3431	17	99%
1941	3414	0.001401233	3396	18	99%
1942	4124	0.001509617	4105	19	99%
1943	4191	0.001484823	4169	22	99%
1944	3759	0.001397357	3744	15	99%
1945	3619	0.001364162	3601	18	99%
1946	4031	0.001261538	4016	15	99%
1947	4274	0.001186457	4261	13	99%
1948	3676	0.00106473	3667	9	100%
1949	3666	0.001052005	3660	6	100%
1950	3643	0.001039859	3630	13	99%
1951	3985	0.001081781	3979	6	100%
1952	4236	0.001115322	4228	8	100%
1953	4310	0.001118422	4299	11	99%
1954	4052	0.001017909	4043	9	100%
1955	3799	0.000946183	3782	17	99%
1956	3876	0.000940084	3866	10	99%
1957	3720	0.000885263	3707	13	99%
1958	3319	0.000802873	3302	17	99%
1959	3086	0.000742185	3079	7	100%
1960	2853	0.000686838	2843	10	99%
1961	2571	0.00062067	2561	10	99%
1962	2540	0.000629434	2531	9	99%
1963	2335	0.000589915	2323	12	99%
1964	2285	0.000587765	2277	8	99%
1965	2139	0.000589996	2129	10	99%
1966	1830	0.000526519	1819	11	99%
1967	1629	0.000479838	1620	9	99%
1968	1499	0.000443699	1491	8	99%
1969	1518	0.000436794	1507	11	99%
1970	1391	0.000385691	1375	16	98%
1971	1177	0.000342913	1169	8	99%
1972	978	0.000311168	978		100%
1973	875	0.000290034	867	8	98%
1974	827	0.00027204	820	7	98%
1975	677	0.000224217	670	7	98%
1976	624	0.000205649	617	7	98%
1977	575	0.000181017	575		100%
1978	529	0.000166673	529		100%
1979	499	0.000149985	494	5	98%
1980	492	0.000142836	481	11	96%
1981	469	0.000135574	462	7	97%
1982	421	0.000120013	412	9	96%
1983	340	0.000098171	335	5	97%
1984	323	0.000092583	315	8	95%
1985	297	0.000083214	290	7	95%
1986	290	0.000081528	284	6	96%
1987	261	0.000072387	261		100%
1988	216	0.000058457	209	7	94%
1989	232	0.000060347	232		100%
1990	211	0.000053384	202	9	91%
1991	190	0.000048777	190		100%
1992	164	0.000042694	164		100%
1993	149	0.00003952	149		100%
1994	119	0.000032009	119		100%
1995	108	0.000029491	108		100%
1996	108	0.000029612	108		100%
1997	96	0.000026477	96		100%
1998	87	0.000023653	87		100%
1999	76	0.000020575	76		100%
2000	66	0.000017461	66		100%
2001	71	0.000018967	71		100%
2002	64	0.00001712	64		100%
2003	42	0.000011046	42		100%
2004	46	0.000012039	46		100%
2005	54	0.000014045	54		100%
2006	66	0.000016683	66		100%
2007	59	0.000014759	59		100%
2008	42	0.000010685	42		100%
2009	38	0.000009947	38		100%
2010	45	0.000012176	45		100%
2011	60	0.000016403	60		100%
2012	57	0.000015585	57		100%
2013	42	0.000011521	42		100%
2014	66	0.000017807	66		100%
2015	62	0.000016753	62		100%
2016	61	0.000016627	61		100%
2017	55	0.000015379	55		100%
2018	58	0.000016497	58		100%
2019	58	0.00001671	58		100%
2020	41	0.000012273	41		100%
2021	48	0.000014168	48		100%
2022	65	0.000019213	65		100%
2023	64	0.000019328	64		100%
2024	62	0.000018627	62		100%

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