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How popular is “Skip” in the USA?

Number of people named “Skip” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Skip” by birth year

This chart shows how “Skip” 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
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 -100%
1944 25 0.000009293 25 -100%
1945 28 0.000010554 28 -100%
1946 34 0.000010641 34 -100%
1947 58 0.000016101 58 -100%
1948 46 0.000013324 46 -100%
1949 51 0.000014635 51 -100%
1950 43 0.000012274 43 -100%
1951 72 0.000019545 72 -100%
1952 56 0.000014745 56 -100%
1953 63 0.000016348 63 -100%
1954 53 0.000013314 53 -100%
1955 71 0.000017683 71 -100%
1956 67 0.00001625 67 -100%
1957 66 0.000015706 66 -100%
1958 93 0.000022497 93 -100%
1959 83 0.000019962 83 -100%
1960 105 0.000025278 105 -100%
1961 68 0.000016416 68 -100%
1962 67 0.000016603 67 -100%
1963 54 0.000013643 54 -100%
1964 53 0.000013633 53 -100%
1965 46 0.000012688 46 -100%
1966 31 0.000008919 31 -100%
1967 37 0.000010899 37 -100%
1968 32 0.000009472 32 -100%
1969 25 0.000007194 25 -100%
1970 29 0.000008041 29 -100%
1971 26 0.000007575 26 -100%
1972 29 0.000009227 29 -100%
1973 22 0.000007292 22 -100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 -100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 -100%
1976 22 0.00000725 22 -100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 -100%
1979 26 0.000007815 26 -100%
1980 29 0.000008419 29 -100%
1981 32 0.00000925 32 -100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 -100%
1983 31 0.000008951 31 -100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 10 0.000002993 10 -100%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 -100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 13 0.000003906 13 -100%

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