How popular is “Sire” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Sire” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Sire” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Males	Bias toward female
1998	6	0.000001631	6	-100%
1999	8	0.000002166	8	-100%
2000	5	0.000001323	5	-100%
2002	11	0.000002943	11	-100%
2003	5	0.000001315	5	-100%
2004	6	0.00000157	6	-100%
2005	16	0.000004161	16	-100%
2006	13	0.000003286	13	-100%
2007	24	0.000006003	24	-100%
2008	19	0.000004834	19	-100%
2009	36	0.000009424	36	-100%
2010	33	0.000008929	33	-100%
2011	28	0.000007655	28	-100%
2012	58	0.000015858	58	-100%
2013	58	0.000015909	58	-100%
2014	60	0.000016188	60	-100%
2015	79	0.000021346	79	-100%
2016	98	0.000026712	98	-100%
2017	103	0.000028802	103	-100%
2018	123	0.000034984	123	-100%
2019	121	0.000034861	121	-100%
2020	153	0.0000458	153	-100%
2021	147	0.000043389	147	-100%
2022	159	0.000046998	159	-100%
2023	125	0.000037751	125	-100%
2024	100	0.000030044	100	-100%

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