How popular is “Sierra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sierra” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sierra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sierra” 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
1940	32	0.000013897	32		100%
1941	24	0.00000985	24		100%
1942	13	0.000004759	13		100%
1943	19	0.000006731	19		100%
1944	15	0.000005576	15		100%
1945	14	0.000005277	14		100%
1946	11	0.000003443	11		100%
1947	5	0.000001388	5		100%
1948	11	0.000003186	11		100%
1950	5	0.000001427	5		100%
1952	5	0.000001316	5		100%
1954	8	0.00000201	8		100%
1955	8	0.000001992	8		100%
1956	8	0.00000194	8		100%
1957	7	0.000001666	7		100%
1958	7	0.000001693	7		100%
1959	6	0.000001443	6		100%
1961	8	0.000001931	8		100%
1962	7	0.000001735	7		100%
1963	11	0.000002779	11		100%
1964	9	0.000002315	9		100%
1965	7	0.000001931	7		100%
1966	7	0.000002014	7		100%
1967	16	0.000004713	16		100%
1968	5	0.00000148	5		100%
1969	11	0.000003165	11		100%
1970	23	0.000006377	23		100%
1971	24	0.000006992	24		100%
1972	24	0.000007636	24		100%
1973	41	0.00001359	41		100%
1974	57	0.00001875	57		100%
1975	81	0.000026827	76	5	88%
1976	96	0.000031638	91	5	90%
1977	144	0.000045333	134	10	86%
1978	173	0.000054508	158	15	83%
1979	159	0.000047791	159		100%
1980	184	0.000053418	184		100%
1981	195	0.000056369	187	8	92%
1982	210	0.000059864	210		100%
1983	200	0.000057748	193	7	93%
1984	235	0.000067359	230	5	96%
1985	1207	0.00033818	1199	8	99%
1986	1618	0.000454868	1610	8	99%
1987	1628	0.000451518	1620	8	99%
1988	1560	0.000422187	1550	10	99%
1989	1876	0.000487977	1863	13	99%
1990	2181	0.000551806	2170	11	99%
1991	2312	0.000593541	2302	10	99%
1992	2622	0.000682586	2614	8	99%
1993	3481	0.000923274	3473	8	100%
1994	4871	0.001310235	4853	18	99%
1995	5505	0.001503213	5495	10	100%
1996	5499	0.001507734	5487	12	100%
1997	5698	0.001571537	5688	10	100%
1998	5853	0.001591264	5841	12	100%
1999	5724	0.001549596	5715	9	100%
2000	5528	0.001462471	5520	8	100%
2001	5244	0.001400869	5237	7	100%
2002	4814	0.001287754	4807	7	100%
2003	4253	0.001118528	4242	11	99%
2004	3536	0.000925431	3520	16	99%
2005	3054	0.00079431	3049	5	100%
2006	2471	0.000624591	2466	5	100%
2007	2113	0.000528556	2113		100%
2008	1902	0.000483888	1902		100%
2009	1676	0.000438723	1676		100%
2010	1455	0.000393697	1455		100%
2011	1149	0.000314124	1149		100%
2012	1170	0.000319902	1170		100%
2013	945	0.000259212	945		100%
2014	949	0.000256045	949		100%
2015	800	0.000216163	800		100%
2016	771	0.000210156	771		100%
2017	704	0.000196857	704		100%
2018	698	0.000198527	698		100%
2019	630	0.000181507	630		100%
2020	567	0.000169731	567		100%
2021	611	0.000180345	611		100%
2022	551	0.000162867	551		100%
2023	524	0.000158251	524		100%
2024	505	0.00015172	505		100%

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