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How popular is “Han” in the USA?

Number of people named “Han” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Han” 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 “Han” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Han” by birth year

This chart shows how “Han” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 5 8 -23%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 18 0.00000541 6 12 -33%
1980 24 0.000006968 11 13 -8%
1981 23 0.000006649 10 13 -13%
1982 25 0.000007127 10 15 -20%
1983 20 0.000005775 8 12 -20%
1984 21 0.000006019 9 12 -14%
1985 18 0.000005043 9 9 0%
1986 20 0.000005623 9 11 -10%
1987 15 0.00000416 7 8 -7%
1988 20 0.000005413 7 13 -30%
1989 26 0.000006763 14 12 8%
1990 23 0.000005819 8 15 -30%
1991 26 0.000006675 12 14 -8%
1992 26 0.000006769 11 15 -15%
1993 29 0.000007692 14 15 -3%
1994 32 0.000008608 18 14 13%
1995 31 0.000008465 18 13 16%
1996 25 0.000006855 16 9 28%
1997 29 0.000007998 17 12 17%
1998 31 0.000008428 21 10 35%
1999 29 0.000007851 22 7 52%
2000 30 0.000007937 19 11 27%
2001 20 0.000005343 11 9 10%
2002 33 0.000008828 15 18 -9%
2003 35 0.000009205 25 10 43%
2004 25 0.000006543 13 12 4%
2005 27 0.000007022 13 14 -4%
2006 34 0.000008594 17 17 0%
2007 37 0.000009255 23 14 24%
2008 22 0.000005597 11 11 0%
2009 27 0.000007068 16 11 19%
2010 23 0.000006223 14 9 22%
2011 31 0.000008475 10 21 -35%
2012 35 0.00000957 20 15 14%
2013 32 0.000008778 19 13 19%
2014 33 0.000008904 13 20 -21%
2015 41 0.000011078 19 22 -7%
2016 31 0.00000845 12 19 -23%
2017 46 0.000012863 17 29 -26%
2018 46 0.000013083 16 30 -30%
2019 45 0.000012965 19 26 -16%
2020 35 0.000010477 14 21 -20%
2021 35 0.000010331 7 28 -60%
2022 41 0.000012119 11 30 -46%
2023 37 0.000011174 10 27 -46%
2024 32 0.000009614 11 21 -31%

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