Popularity ranking · United States

The 100 most popular Poets in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest poets in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 257 poets tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sylvia Plath, Shel Silverstein and Andrea Gibson lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.6M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 249k, and the largest, Sylvia Plath, reaches around 2.4M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Percy Bysshe Shelley 323k 41.3 65.4% Poet
27 Allen Ginsberg 316k 37.7 38.3% Poet
28 Nikolai Gogol 313k 44.0 51.8% Poet
29 Ovid 303k 43.5 60.4% Poet
30 Robert Louis Stevenson 287k 36.6 42.1% Poet
31 Charlotte Brontë 233k 35.6 67.9% Poet
32 Ezra Pound 232k Poet
33 Akiane Kramarik 229k 46.5 79.2% Poet
34 Cyrano de Bergerac 217k 46.7 100.0% Poet
35 Thomas Merton 198k 47.4 63.1% Poet
36 Miguel de Cervantes 194k 38.5 45.8% Poet
37 Viktor Tsoi 189k 44.1 35.2% Poet
38 Petrarch 188k 39.7 56.4% Poet
39 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 185k Poet
40 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 180k 42.0 70.5% Poet
41 W. H. Auden 176k 40.1 77.0% Poet
42 John Keats 173k 39.6 66.3% Poet
43 Chinua Achebe 171k 37.7 52.9% Poet
44 Julia Alvarez 159k Poet
45 Louise Erdrich 157k 42.2 85.8% Poet
46 E. E. Cummings 151k 48.5 86.3% Poet
47 Anne Sexton 150k Poet
48 Thomas Moore 149k 53.2 75.7% Poet
49 Lucan 136k 47.5 90.1% Poet
50 Giordano Bruno 133k 40.7 46.8% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in United States?

Sylvia Plath currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.4M people in United States.

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