How popular is “Sailor” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Sailor” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Sailor” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1997	5	0.000001379		5	-100%
1998	16	0.00000435	10	6	25%
1999	58	0.000015702	49	9	69%
2000	43	0.000011376	43		100%
2001	61	0.000016295	52	9	70%
2002	65	0.000017388	51	14	57%
2003	65	0.000017095	55	10	69%
2004	58	0.00001518	45	13	55%
2005	49	0.000012744	42	7	71%
2006	79	0.000019969	64	15	62%
2007	87	0.000021763	74	13	70%
2008	100	0.000025441	77	23	54%
2009	97	0.000025392	85	12	75%
2010	102	0.000027599	90	12	76%
2011	125	0.000034174	111	14	78%
2012	122	0.000033357	103	19	69%
2013	160	0.000043888	135	25	69%
2014	223	0.000060167	200	23	79%
2015	280	0.000075657	237	43	69%
2016	294	0.000080137	245	49	67%
2017	283	0.000079134	243	40	72%
2018	194	0.000055178	158	36	63%
2019	253	0.000072891	208	45	64%
2020	262	0.00007843	225	37	72%
2021	251	0.000074086	212	39	69%
2022	232	0.000068575	182	50	57%
2023	260	0.000078521	230	30	77%
2024	218	0.000065495	170	48	56%

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