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How popular is “Jael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jael” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jael” 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
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1973 17 0.000005635 17 100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 100%
1975 21 0.000006955 21 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 18 0.000005667 18 100%
1978 17 0.000005356 17 100%
1979 41 0.000012323 36 5 76%
1980 25 0.000007258 20 5 60%
1981 29 0.000008383 29 100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 100%
1983 30 0.000008662 23 7 53%
1984 27 0.000007739 27 100%
1985 37 0.000010367 28 9 51%
1986 35 0.00000984 26 9 49%
1987 44 0.000012203 35 9 59%
1988 38 0.000010284 31 7 63%
1989 44 0.000011445 38 6 73%
1990 36 0.000009108 36 100%
1991 44 0.000011296 34 10 55%
1992 51 0.000013277 41 10 61%
1993 52 0.000013792 37 15 42%
1994 64 0.000017215 50 14 56%
1995 71 0.000019387 49 22 38%
1996 79 0.00002166 68 11 72%
1997 73 0.000020134 53 20 45%
1998 85 0.000023109 65 20 53%
1999 96 0.000025989 77 19 60%
2000 111 0.000029366 87 24 57%
2001 119 0.000031789 76 43 28%
2002 149 0.000039858 94 55 26%
2003 164 0.000043132 100 64 22%
2004 168 0.000043968 84 84 0%
2005 200 0.000052018 87 113 -13%
2006 208 0.000052576 105 103 1%
2007 321 0.000080297 175 146 9%
2008 294 0.000074797 167 127 14%
2009 285 0.000074604 131 154 -8%
2010 306 0.000082798 161 145 5%
2011 273 0.000074635 156 117 14%
2012 408 0.000111556 206 202 1%
2013 338 0.000092713 177 161 5%
2014 283 0.000076355 159 124 12%
2015 280 0.000075657 152 128 9%
2016 285 0.000077684 145 140 2%
2017 283 0.000079134 147 136 4%
2018 302 0.000085896 173 129 15%
2019 287 0.000082687 154 133 7%
2020 290 0.000086811 127 163 -12%
2021 271 0.000079989 131 140 -3%
2022 267 0.000078921 143 124 7%
2023 280 0.000084562 132 148 -6%
2024 286 0.000085925 148 138 3%

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