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How popular is “Sloan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sloan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sloan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sloan” 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
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 13 0.000007094 13 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 15 0.000003892 6 9 -20%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 100%
1959 12 0.000002886 7 5 17%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 6 5 9%
1963 37 0.000009348 26 11 41%
1964 34 0.000008746 23 11 35%
1965 33 0.000009102 23 10 39%
1966 36 0.000010358 21 15 17%
1967 22 0.00000648 12 10 9%
1968 29 0.000008584 18 11 24%
1969 37 0.000010646 12 25 -35%
1970 56 0.000015527 29 27 4%
1971 34 0.000009906 19 15 12%
1972 27 0.000008591 11 16 -19%
1973 49 0.000016242 23 26 -6%
1974 45 0.000014803 14 31 -38%
1975 27 0.000008942 10 17 -26%
1976 15 0.000004943 7 8 -7%
1977 26 0.000008185 5 21 -62%
1978 21 0.000006617 6 15 -43%
1979 21 0.000006312 7 14 -33%
1980 24 0.000006968 24 -100%
1981 33 0.000009539 12 21 -27%
1982 31 0.000008837 13 18 -16%
1983 28 0.000008085 13 15 -7%
1984 42 0.000012039 19 23 -10%
1985 42 0.000011768 14 28 -33%
1986 50 0.000014056 23 27 -8%
1987 55 0.000015254 23 32 -16%
1988 59 0.000015967 29 30 -2%
1989 73 0.000018988 39 34 7%
1990 74 0.000018722 45 29 22%
1991 74 0.000018997 45 29 22%
1992 88 0.000022909 54 34 23%
1993 90 0.000023871 55 35 22%
1994 101 0.000027168 53 48 5%
1995 95 0.000025941 54 41 14%
1996 114 0.000031257 62 52 9%
1997 100 0.000027581 49 51 -2%
1998 125 0.000033984 87 38 39%
1999 132 0.000035735 78 54 18%
2000 121 0.000032011 75 46 24%
2001 118 0.000031522 76 42 29%
2002 123 0.000032903 80 43 30%
2003 126 0.000033138 78 48 24%
2004 123 0.000032191 74 49 20%
2005 97 0.000025229 56 41 15%
2006 129 0.000032607 85 44 32%
2007 165 0.000041274 115 50 39%
2008 176 0.000044776 122 54 39%
2009 206 0.000053924 147 59 43%
2010 321 0.000086857 249 72 55%
2011 364 0.000099514 291 73 60%
2012 331 0.000090502 257 74 55%
2013 363 0.00009957 297 66 64%
2014 410 0.00011062 337 73 64%
2015 462 0.000124834 406 56 76%
2016 591 0.000161093 517 74 75%
2017 589 0.0001647 497 92 69%
2018 607 0.000172644 520 87 71%
2019 560 0.00016134 482 78 72%
2020 502 0.000150273 433 69 73%
2021 624 0.000184182 530 94 70%
2022 549 0.000162276 465 84 69%
2023 500 0.000151003 421 79 68%
2024 441 0.000132492 369 72 67%

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