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How popular is “Simon” in the USA?

Number of people named “Simon” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Simon” by birth year

This chart shows how “Simon” 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 88 0.000436759 88 -100%
1881 75 0.00038923 75 -100%
1882 78 0.000352092 78 -100%
1883 90 0.00041485 90 -100%
1884 85 0.000349132 85 -100%
1885 83 0.000344607 83 -100%
1886 97 0.000379921 97 -100%
1887 67 0.000270825 67 -100%
1888 109 0.000363971 109 -100%
1889 69 0.000238799 69 -100%
1890 73 0.000242202 73 -100%
1891 63 0.000219763 63 -100%
1892 80 0.000239253 80 -100%
1893 71 0.000218312 71 -100%
1894 87 0.000256872 87 -100%
1895 57 0.000162384 57 -100%
1896 85 0.000237773 85 -100%
1897 79 0.000227694 79 -100%
1898 68 0.000178265 68 -100%
1899 68 0.000200452 68 -100%
1900 74 0.00016435 74 -100%
1901 72 0.000208206 72 -100%
1902 58 0.000149974 58 -100%
1903 77 0.000201994 77 -100%
1904 76 0.000188359 76 -100%
1905 80 0.000188714 80 -100%
1906 83 0.000193721 83 -100%
1907 79 0.00016975 79 -100%
1908 85 0.000173949 85 -100%
1909 94 0.000183872 94 -100%
1910 132 0.00022346 132 -100%
1911 137 0.000212641 137 -100%
1912 226 0.000228731 226 -100%
1913 244 0.000214579 6 238 -95%
1914 274 0.000193456 274 -100%
1915 326 0.000177906 326 -100%
1916 352 0.000181967 352 -100%
1917 358 0.000178398 358 -100%
1918 374 0.000172262 374 -100%
1919 363 0.000172018 363 -100%
1920 342 0.000151151 342 -100%
1921 399 0.000170914 5 394 -97%
1922 376 0.000164253 376 -100%
1923 328 0.000142455 328 -100%
1924 330 0.000138562 330 -100%
1925 337 0.000144431 337 -100%
1926 286 0.00012457 286 -100%
1927 283 0.000122017 283 -100%
1928 267 0.000118093 267 -100%
1929 267 0.000121798 267 -100%
1930 281 0.000126389 281 -100%
1931 233 0.000110721 233 -100%
1932 215 0.000101833 215 -100%
1933 201 0.000100528 5 196 -95%
1934 197 0.000094857 197 -100%
1935 200 0.000095698 200 -100%
1936 177 0.000085195 177 -100%
1937 195 0.000091521 195 -100%
1938 224 0.00010124 224 -100%
1939 206 0.00009349 206 -100%
1940 193 0.000083815 193 -100%
1941 192 0.000078804 192 -100%
1942 210 0.000076872 210 -100%
1943 250 0.000088572 250 -100%
1944 185 0.000068771 185 -100%
1945 179 0.000067473 179 -100%
1946 209 0.000065408 209 -100%
1947 236 0.000065513 5 231 -96%
1948 220 0.000063722 220 -100%
1949 199 0.000057106 199 -100%
1950 225 0.000064224 225 -100%
1951 195 0.000052935 195 -100%
1952 230 0.000060558 230 -100%
1953 204 0.000052937 204 -100%
1954 224 0.000056271 224 -100%
1955 224 0.00005579 224 -100%
1956 210 0.000050933 210 -100%
1957 209 0.000049737 209 -100%
1958 197 0.000047655 197 -100%
1959 202 0.000048581 202 -100%
1960 222 0.000053445 222 -100%
1961 226 0.000054559 226 -100%
1962 204 0.000050553 204 -100%
1963 211 0.000053307 211 -100%
1964 221 0.000056847 221 -100%
1965 195 0.000053786 5 190 -95%
1966 200 0.000057543 200 -100%
1967 223 0.000065687 223 -100%
1968 251 0.000074295 251 -100%
1969 243 0.000069922 243 -100%
1970 281 0.000077915 281 -100%
1971 343 0.000099931 6 337 -97%
1972 342 0.000108813 342 -100%
1973 353 0.000117008 6 347 -97%
1974 333 0.00010954 333 -100%
1975 342 0.000113268 342 -100%
1976 400 0.000131826 400 -100%
1977 366 0.000115221 366 -100%
1978 349 0.00010996 349 -100%
1979 479 0.000143974 479 -100%
1980 466 0.000135288 6 460 -97%
1981 464 0.000134128 464 -100%
1982 442 0.000125999 6 436 -97%
1983 467 0.000134841 467 -100%
1984 655 0.000187746 655 -100%
1985 564 0.000158023 564 -100%
1986 606 0.000170365 606 -100%
1987 588 0.000163079 8 580 -97%
1988 597 0.000161568 10 587 -97%
1989 580 0.000150867 5 575 -98%
1990 626 0.000158382 626 -100%
1991 627 0.000160965 8 619 -97%
1992 697 0.00018145 9 688 -97%
1993 675 0.000179032 7 668 -98%
1994 688 0.000185063 10 678 -97%
1995 652 0.000178037 5 647 -98%
1996 728 0.000199605 728 -100%
1997 781 0.000215404 781 -100%
1998 959 0.000260725 9 950 -98%
1999 1128 0.000305371 1128 -100%
2000 1253 0.00033149 1253 -100%
2001 1281 0.000342203 5 1276 -99%
2002 1398 0.000373968 1398 -100%
2003 1422 0.000373982 1422 -100%
2004 1309 0.000342587 1309 -100%
2005 1314 0.000341756 1314 -100%
2006 1422 0.000359437 5 1417 -99%
2007 1352 0.000338196 1352 -100%
2008 1356 0.00034498 6 1350 -99%
2009 1335 0.00034946 1335 -100%
2010 1367 0.000369885 1367 -100%
2011 1363 0.000372629 1363 -100%
2012 1462 0.000399741 10 1452 -99%
2013 1616 0.000443266 1616 -100%
2014 1619 0.000436815 1619 -100%
2015 1653 0.000446647 8 1645 -99%
2016 1558 0.000424674 1558 -100%
2017 1385 0.000387283 1385 -100%
2018 1452 0.000412981 1452 -100%
2019 1424 0.000410264 6 1418 -99%
2020 1408 0.000421484 1408 -100%
2021 1429 0.000421789 1429 -100%
2022 1456 0.00043037 1456 -100%
2023 1410 0.000425828 1410 -100%
2024 1402 0.000421211 1402 -100%

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