How popular is “Samuel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Samuel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Samuel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Samuel” 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	1024	0.005082289		1024	-100%
1881	919	0.004769368		919	-100%
1882	1003	0.004527542		1003	-100%
1883	937	0.004319047		937	-100%
1884	945	0.003881525		945	-100%
1885	888	0.003686881		888	-100%
1886	870	0.003407542		870	-100%
1887	802	0.003241819		802	-100%
1888	931	0.003108784		931	-100%
1889	810	0.002803292		810	-100%
1890	820	0.002720628	5	815	-99%
1891	759	0.002647616	6	753	-98%
1892	902	0.002697578		902	-100%
1893	856	0.00263204	5	851	-99%
1894	776	0.002291181		776	-100%
1895	814	0.002318956		814	-100%
1896	734	0.002053239		734	-100%
1897	759	0.002187591		759	-100%
1898	749	0.001963534		749	-100%
1899	704	0.002075264		704	-100%
1900	883	0.001961098	6	877	-99%
1901	628	0.001816016		628	-100%
1902	702	0.001815206		702	-100%
1903	741	0.001943861		741	-100%
1904	727	0.001801802		727	-100%
1905	863	0.002035752	7	856	-98%
1906	789	0.001841518	6	783	-98%
1907	892	0.001916672		892	-100%
1908	965	0.001974833	5	960	-99%
1909	983	0.001922836		983	-100%
1910	1129	0.001911256		1129	-100%
1911	1398	0.002169871		1398	-100%
1912	2608	0.00263951	6	2602	-100%
1913	2855	0.002510751	5	2850	-100%
1914	3712	0.002620832	9	3703	-100%
1915	4361	0.002379905	10	4351	-100%
1916	4413	0.002281307	14	4399	-99%
1917	4506	0.002245422	16	4490	-99%
1918	4795	0.002208547	23	4772	-99%
1919	4487	0.002126293	15	4472	-99%
1920	4671	0.0020644	17	4654	-99%
1921	4774	0.002044973	20	4754	-99%
1922	4616	0.002016464	16	4600	-99%
1923	4595	0.001995673	17	4578	-99%
1924	4615	0.001937765	23	4592	-99%
1925	4430	0.001898597	25	4405	-99%
1926	4203	0.001830651	24	4179	-99%
1927	4226	0.001822056	37	4189	-98%
1928	3871	0.001712121	27	3844	-99%
1929	3598	0.001641303	31	3567	-98%
1930	3550	0.001596734	19	3531	-99%
1931	3407	0.001618998	28	3379	-98%
1932	3428	0.001623651	17	3411	-99%
1933	3132	0.001566433	21	3111	-99%
1934	3152	0.001517708	15	3137	-99%
1935	3166	0.001514905	17	3149	-99%
1936	2902	0.001396819	9	2893	-99%
1937	3050	0.001431475	23	3027	-98%
1938	3266	0.001476109	23	3243	-99%
1939	3272	0.001484949	18	3254	-99%
1940	3382	0.00146872	20	3362	-99%
1941	3552	0.001457874	15	3537	-99%
1942	4220	0.001544759	30	4190	-99%
1943	4159	0.001473486	17	4142	-99%
1944	3964	0.001473563	18	3946	-99%
1945	3973	0.001497601	16	3957	-99%
1946	4551	0.001424276	27	4524	-99%
1947	5123	0.001422138	14	5109	-99%
1948	5018	0.001453432	15	5003	-99%
1949	5378	0.001543284	21	5357	-99%
1950	5244	0.00149685	18	5226	-99%
1951	5493	0.001491148	17	5476	-99%
1952	5677	0.001494732	29	5648	-99%
1953	5444	0.001412689	21	5423	-99%
1954	5651	0.001419597	17	5634	-99%
1955	5557	0.001384032	23	5534	-99%
1956	5612	0.001361133	28	5584	-99%
1957	5251	0.001249601	14	5237	-99%
1958	5070	0.001226444	19	5051	-99%
1959	4985	0.001198896	32	4953	-99%
1960	4738	0.001140638	27	4711	-99%
1961	4693	0.001132945	27	4666	-99%
1962	4586	0.00113645	34	4552	-99%
1963	4547	0.001148754	25	4522	-99%
1964	4490	0.001154953	27	4463	-99%
1965	4420	0.001219159	26	4394	-99%
1966	4181	0.001202939	23	4158	-99%
1967	4252	0.001252468	20	4232	-99%
1968	4148	0.001227795	27	4121	-99%
1969	4460	0.001283334	29	4431	-99%
1970	4585	0.001271311	26	4559	-99%
1971	4444	0.001294738	38	4406	-98%
1972	4253	0.001353168	39	4214	-98%
1973	4299	0.001424979	33	4266	-98%
1974	4704	0.001547369	33	4671	-99%
1975	4658	0.001542694	37	4621	-98%
1976	5063	0.001668589	37	5026	-99%
1977	5299	0.001668191	40	5259	-98%
1978	5426	0.001709585	33	5393	-99%
1979	5735	0.001723775	47	5688	-98%
1980	6049	0.00175613	36	6013	-99%
1981	6081	0.001757832	44	6037	-99%
1982	6062	0.001728069	45	6017	-99%
1983	6258	0.001806927	63	6195	-98%
1984	6409	0.001837045	48	6361	-99%
1985	7074	0.001982007	64	7010	-98%
1986	7636	0.002146706	56	7580	-99%
1987	8639	0.002395986	63	8576	-99%
1988	9627	0.002605382	63	9564	-99%
1989	10144	0.002638611	37	10107	-99%
1990	10926	0.002764342	34	10892	-99%
1991	11259	0.002890432	27	11232	-100%
1992	11381	0.00296282	36	11345	-99%
1993	11750	0.00311648	40	11710	-99%
1994	12190	0.00327895	44	12146	-99%
1995	12469	0.003404826	29	12440	-100%
1996	13656	0.003744247	27	13629	-100%
1997	14260	0.00393298	23	14237	-100%
1998	13939	0.003789618	27	13912	-100%
1999	14071	0.003809287	22	14049	-100%
2000	14214	0.003760413	27	14187	-100%
2001	14845	0.003965657	32	14813	-100%
2002	14598	0.003904993	19	14579	-100%
2003	14712	0.003869218	25	14687	-100%
2004	14182	0.003711669	54	14128	-99%
2005	14295	0.003717965	26	14269	-100%
2006	13664	0.003453829	19	13645	-100%
2007	13382	0.003347439	16	13366	-100%
2008	12796	0.003255429	23	12773	-100%
2009	12195	0.003192262	20	12175	-100%
2010	11999	0.003246712	28	11971	-100%
2011	11372	0.003108979	6	11366	-100%
2012	11482	0.003139417	14	11468	-100%
2013	11153	0.003059248	14	11139	-100%
2014	11038	0.002978111	14	11024	-100%
2015	10912	0.002948462	12	10900	-100%
2016	10631	0.002897758	16	10615	-100%
2017	10463	0.002925735	16	10447	-100%
2018	9862	0.002804974	12	9850	-100%
2019	9331	0.002688326	10	9321	-100%
2020	8599	0.002574106	14	8585	-100%
2021	8579	0.00253221	6	8573	-100%
2022	8422	0.002489407	8	8414	-100%
2023	8029	0.002424804	10	8019	-100%
2024	8317	0.002498722	7	8310	-100%

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