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How popular is “Jafar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jafar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jafar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jafar” 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 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 33 0.000008877 33 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 -100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 -100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 -100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 -100%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 -100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 -100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 -100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 -100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 -100%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 -100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 -100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 -100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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