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How popular is “Sandra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sandra” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sandra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sandra” 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
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 100%
1913 36 0.000031659 36 100%
1914 40 0.000028242 40 100%
1915 49 0.000026741 49 100%
1916 43 0.000022229 43 100%
1917 63 0.000031394 63 100%
1918 72 0.000033163 72 100%
1919 86 0.000040754 86 100%
1920 112 0.0000495 112 100%
1921 120 0.000051403 120 100%
1922 97 0.000042374 97 100%
1923 110 0.000047775 110 100%
1924 145 0.000060883 145 100%
1925 177 0.000075858 177 100%
1926 171 0.00007448 171 100%
1927 207 0.000089249 207 100%
1928 235 0.000103939 235 100%
1929 253 0.000115411 253 100%
1930 298 0.000134036 298 100%
1931 453 0.000215264 453 100%
1932 822 0.000389335 822 100%
1933 1370 0.000685189 1365 5 99%
1934 2562 0.001233619 2550 12 99%
1935 4105 0.001964209 4089 16 99%
1936 5548 0.002670417 5526 22 99%
1937 7554 0.003545364 7520 34 99%
1938 10851 0.004904243 10806 45 99%
1939 12012 0.005451471 11970 42 99%
1940 16203 0.007036568 16154 49 99%
1941 19569 0.00803185 19498 71 99%
1942 25069 0.009176672 24993 76 99%
1943 26095 0.009245156 25990 105 99%
1944 26100 0.009702317 26023 77 99%
1945 24775 0.009338802 24700 75 99%
1946 31770 0.009942707 31694 76 100%
1947 34852 0.00967487 34779 73 100%
1948 31122 0.009014291 31062 60 100%
1949 30701 0.008810036 30643 58 100%
1950 28942 0.008261217 28896 46 100%
1951 27711 0.00752252 27666 45 100%
1952 26138 0.006882034 26097 41 100%
1953 25544 0.006628531 25500 44 100%
1954 26104 0.006557628 26062 42 100%
1955 25162 0.006266874 25111 51 100%
1956 24344 0.005904385 24302 42 100%
1957 22823 0.005431276 22766 57 100%
1958 21890 0.005295237 21833 57 99%
1959 23416 0.005631565 23361 55 100%
1960 24628 0.005929008 24568 60 100%
1961 24221 0.005847233 24154 67 99%
1962 22482 0.005571234 22418 64 99%
1963 21683 0.005477995 21623 60 99%
1964 19325 0.004970927 19249 76 99%
1965 16422 0.004529646 16370 52 99%
1966 15905 0.004576116 15852 53 99%
1967 14785 0.004355066 14738 47 99%
1968 12725 0.003766561 12685 40 99%
1969 12231 0.003519385 12187 44 99%
1970 11300 0.003133219 11246 54 99%
1971 9752 0.002841198 9713 39 99%
1972 7953 0.00253039 7916 37 99%
1973 6626 0.002196304 6584 42 99%
1974 6293 0.002070067 6270 23 99%
1975 5409 0.001791419 5376 33 99%
1976 4895 0.001613222 4861 34 99%
1977 4406 0.001387064 4372 34 98%
1978 4018 0.001265962 4005 13 99%
1979 4015 0.001206793 3994 21 99%
1980 4029 0.001169689 4002 27 99%
1981 4065 0.001175068 4036 29 99%
1982 3687 0.001051038 3654 33 98%
1983 3198 0.000923386 3175 23 99%
1984 2908 0.000833535 2881 27 98%
1985 2684 0.000752008 2663 21 98%
1986 2662 0.000748367 2639 23 98%
1987 2432 0.000674504 2411 21 98%
1988 2293 0.000620561 2258 35 97%
1989 2371 0.000616734 2327 44 96%
1990 2367 0.000598865 2343 24 98%
1991 2155 0.000553236 2141 14 99%
1992 2037 0.000530293 2015 22 98%
1993 1897 0.000503146 1885 12 99%
1994 1785 0.000480142 1768 17 98%
1995 1719 0.000469396 1708 11 99%
1996 1669 0.000457612 1659 10 99%
1997 1448 0.000399366 1448 100%
1998 1372 0.000373008 1366 6 99%
1999 1287 0.000348415 1287 100%
2000 1268 0.000335458 1268 100%
2001 1216 0.000324839 1209 7 99%
2002 1150 0.000307627 1140 10 98%
2003 1180 0.000310337 1180 100%
2004 1183 0.000309611 1176 7 99%
2005 1019 0.00026503 1019 100%
2006 892 0.00022547 892 100%
2007 800 0.000200116 800 100%
2008 721 0.00018343 721 100%
2009 586 0.000153396 586 100%
2010 581 0.000157208 581 100%
2011 473 0.000129313 473 100%
2012 415 0.00011347 415 100%
2013 357 0.000097924 357 100%
2014 355 0.000095781 355 100%
2015 338 0.000091329 338 100%
2016 320 0.000087224 320 100%
2017 301 0.000084168 301 100%
2018 269 0.00007651 269 100%
2019 262 0.000075484 262 100%
2020 222 0.000066456 222 100%
2021 259 0.000076447 259 100%
2022 233 0.000068871 233 100%
2023 234 0.000070669 234 100%
2024 240 0.000072105 240 100%

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