How popular is “Tailor” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Tailor” 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 “Tailor” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Tailor” 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	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1988	6	0.000001624	6		100%
1989	16	0.000004162	8	8	0%
1990	22	0.000005566	16	6	45%
1991	40	0.000010269	34	6	70%
1992	48	0.000012496	36	12	50%
1993	73	0.000019362	68	5	86%
1994	63	0.000016946	53	10	68%
1995	73	0.000019934	62	11	70%
1996	62	0.000016999	55	7	77%
1997	78	0.000021513	71	7	82%
1998	59	0.00001604	50	9	69%
1999	74	0.000020033	62	12	68%
2000	50	0.000013228	45	5	80%
2001	47	0.000012555	42	5	79%
2002	39	0.000010433	33	6	69%
2003	36	0.000009468	30	6	67%
2004	31	0.000008113	31		100%
2005	36	0.000009363	36		100%
2006	39	0.000009858	34	5	74%
2007	25	0.000006254	19	6	52%
2008	35	0.000008904	27	8	54%
2009	31	0.000008115	26	5	68%
2010	12	0.000003247	6	6	0%
2011	16	0.000004374	10	6	25%
2012	23	0.000006289	18	5	57%
2013	12	0.000003292	12		100%
2014	10	0.000002698	10		100%
2015	14	0.000003783	14		100%
2016	15	0.000004089	10	5	33%
2017	13	0.000003635	13		100%
2018	7	0.000001991	7		100%
2019	7	0.000002017	7		100%
2020	7	0.000002095	7		100%
2021	6	0.000001771	6		100%
2024	6	0.000001803	6		100%

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