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How popular is “Skipper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Skipper” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Skipper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Skipper” 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
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 16 0.000005669 16 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 17 0.000004924 17 -100%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 -100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 -100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 -100%
1952 20 0.000005266 20 -100%
1953 19 0.00000493 19 -100%
1954 17 0.000004271 17 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 20 0.000004851 20 -100%
1957 18 0.000004284 18 -100%
1958 27 0.000006531 27 -100%
1959 26 0.000006253 26 -100%
1960 27 0.0000065 27 -100%
1961 24 0.000005794 24 -100%
1962 33 0.000008178 33 -100%
1963 22 0.000005558 22 -100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 -100%
1965 23 0.000006344 23 -100%
1966 20 0.000005754 20 -100%
1967 26 0.000007659 26 -100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 -100%
1969 22 0.00000633 22 -100%
1970 20 0.000005546 20 -100%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 -100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 -100%
1973 23 0.000007624 23 -100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 -100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 20 0.000006296 20 -100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%

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