girls:
41 births since 1907
#5675 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1914
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
46 births since 1907
#7693 (1st percentile)
The name Fair is the #7,693 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 46 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,675 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 1907. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1914.
Fair first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Fair is available in 8 out of the 22 years between 1907 and 1928 (7 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Fair has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.1% of all recorded births being female. In 1928, 100.0% of babies named Fair were girls.
For girls, Fair reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #608) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 18 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1928.
For boys, Fair reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #456) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1914.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fair".
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