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How popular is “Halimah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Halimah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Halimah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Halimah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Halimah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Halimah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Halimah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Halimah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 18 0.000004682 18 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 100%

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