Benford Popularity by Year

Follow Benford across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Benford birth-count history

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Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1988	Boys	5	#7,270	Down 1,806 places
1975	Boys	5	#5,464	Down 830 places
1974	Boys	6	#4,634	Down 259 places
1971	Boys	6	#4,375	Up 29 places
1969	Boys	5	#4,404	Down 1,934 places
1967	Boys	11	#2,470	Up 516 places
1966	Boys	8	#2,986	Up 332 places
1963	Boys	7	#3,318	Up 720 places
1960	Boys	5	#4,038	Down 748 places
1959	Boys	7	#3,290	Down 257 places
1958	Boys	8	#3,033	Up 960 places
1957	Boys	5	#3,993	Down 1,024 places
1956	Boys	8	#2,969	Up 858 places
1954	Boys	5	#3,827	Down 402 places
1953	Boys	6	#3,425	Down 330 places
1952	Boys	7	#3,095	Up 269 places
1951	Boys	6	#3,364	Down 562 places
1949	Boys	8	#2,802	Down 476 places
1948	Boys	11	#2,326	Up 1,407 places
1947	Boys	5	#3,733	Down 1,462 places
1946	Boys	11	#2,271	Up 725 places
1945	Boys	6	#2,996	Up 434 places
1944	Boys	5	#3,430	Up 108 places
1943	Boys	5	#3,538	Down 1,152 places
1942	Boys	10	#2,386	Down 179 places
1941	Boys	11	#2,207	Up 664 places
1940	Boys	7	#2,871	Down 42 places
1939	Boys	7	#2,829	Up 39 places
1938	Boys	7	#2,868	Down 416 places
1936	Boys	9	#2,452	Down 56 places
1935	Boys	10	#2,396	Up 346 places
1934	Boys	8	#2,742	Up 526 places
1933	Boys	6	#3,268	Up 324 places
1930	Boys	6	#3,592	Up 367 places
1929	Boys	5	#3,959	Down 1,572 places
1928	Boys	12	#2,387	Up 21 places
1927	Boys	12	#2,408	Up 496 places
1926	Boys	9	#2,904	Down 316 places
1925	Boys	11	#2,588	Up 53 places
1924	Boys	11	#2,641	Up 1,181 places
1923	Boys	6	#3,822	Down 836 places
1921	Boys	9	#2,986	Up 1,300 places
1920	Boys	5	#4,286	Down 1,621 places
1919	Boys	10	#2,665	Up 34 places
1918	Boys	10	#2,699	Down 276 places
1917	Boys	11	#2,423	Up 754 places
1916	Boys	7	#3,177	Up 215 places
1915	Boys	6	#3,392	—