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How popular is “Silver” in the USA?

Number of people named “Silver” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Silver” by birth year

This chart shows how “Silver” 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
1896 10 0.000027973 10 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 8 8 0%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 19 0.000008139 8 11 -16%
1923 12 0.000005212 6 6 0%
1924 13 0.000005458 6 7 -8%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1926 14 0.000006098 5 9 -29%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1933 10 0.000005001 5 5 0%
1934 13 0.00000626 5 8 -23%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 100%
1937 16 0.000007509 11 5 38%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1939 17 0.000007715 12 5 41%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 15 0.000006157 10 5 33%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 100%
1948 15 0.000004345 9 6 20%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 11 0.00000314 6 5 9%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 11 0.000002854 5 6 -9%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 7 6 8%
1977 14 0.000004407 8 6 14%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 100%
1980 20 0.000005806 13 7 30%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 100%
1983 41 0.000011838 41 100%
1984 41 0.000011752 41 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 25 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 25 0.000006934 19 6 52%
1988 36 0.000009743 36 100%
1989 37 0.000009624 32 5 73%
1990 28 0.000007084 28 100%
1991 33 0.000008472 28 5 70%
1992 27 0.000007029 21 6 56%
1993 28 0.000007427 21 7 50%
1994 26 0.000006994 20 6 54%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 100%
1997 47 0.000012963 38 9 62%
1998 26 0.000007069 26 100%
1999 25 0.000006768 19 6 52%
2000 27 0.000007143 18 9 33%
2001 31 0.000008281 18 13 16%
2002 37 0.000009898 26 11 41%
2003 26 0.000006838 14 12 8%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 24 0.000006242 16 8 33%
2006 28 0.000007078 15 13 7%
2007 19 0.000004753 10 9 5%
2008 27 0.000006869 19 8 41%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 51 0.0000138 45 6 76%
2011 41 0.000011209 32 9 56%
2012 47 0.000012851 41 6 74%
2013 52 0.000014264 35 17 35%
2014 52 0.00001403 36 16 38%
2015 50 0.00001351 41 9 64%
2016 63 0.000017172 51 12 62%
2017 58 0.000016218 45 13 55%
2018 51 0.000014506 37 14 45%
2019 62 0.000017863 51 11 65%
2020 56 0.000016764 37 19 32%
2021 65 0.000019186 47 18 45%
2022 59 0.000017439 41 18 39%
2023 75 0.00002265 55 20 47%
2024 70 0.00002103 47 23 34%

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