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Top 100 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 H. P. Lovecraft lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.5M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 244k, and the largest, Sylvia Plath, reaches around 2.3M 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
76 Wole Soyinka 75k 33.4 53.6% Poet
77 Federico García Lorca 71k 40.2 62.9% Poet
78 Husayn ibn Ali 70k 35.5 40.6% Poet
79 John Cooper Clarke 69k 46.1 28.9% Poet
80 Julia de Burgos 68k Poet
81 Charles Baudelaire 64k 38.3 54.8% Poet
82 Naomi Shihab Nye 63k Poet
83 Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger 63k 35.1 50.7% Poet
84 Søren Kierkegaard 57k 42.0 46.9% Poet
85 Sonia Sanchez 55k Poet
86 Al-Ghazali 54k 40.2 53.5% Poet
87 Thích Nhất Hạnh 53k 46.3 72.5% Poet
88 Iris Murdoch 53k 29.5 53.0% Poet
89 Lucan 52k 47.5 90.1% Poet
90 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 50k 44.5 76.9% Poet
91 José Martí 46k 41.8 39.4% Poet
92 Michel Houellebecq 45k 36.9 56.0% Poet
93 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 44k 48.5 100.0% Poet
94 Duo Duo 39k 30.2 58.2% Poet
95 Ibn Taymiyyah 38k 24.2 29.6% Poet
96 Novalis 36k 46.1 55.9% Poet
97 Ibn Arabi 36k Poet
98 Friedrich Schiller 34k 45.3 57.9% Poet
99 Milarepa 34k Poet
100 Muhammad al-Bukhari 34k 41.1 22.0% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list 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 2.3M people in United States.

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