Every year, Google makes a list of the most trending searches for people in the last year. If a name appears on the United States Year In Search 2024, it resolves YES.
In 2023, the list was:
Note that this is determined by comparing highly searched topics with their search results from the previous year, it's not just the most searched people overall but the most /trending/ searches for people.
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this seems wildly too high? even in 2023, when the eras tour started and swift surged in popularity, she didn't make the list because her 2022 popularity was already super high (for comparison, Kelce reached #3, because his baseline was so much lower). I don't think it's at all likely she's somehow one of the 10 biggest increases when she started at such a high baseline.
the lists here are dominated by people where a notable thing happened to them and they weren't as famous the year before (e.g. Damar Hamlin), not perennially popular people.
