How popular is “Ka” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Ka” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Ka” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1962	5	0.000001239	5		100%
1976	5	0.000001648		5	-100%
1977	6	0.000001889	6		100%
1978	7	0.000002206	7		100%
1979	9	0.000002705	9		100%
1980	13	0.000003774	13		100%
1981	36	0.000010407	29	7	61%
1982	39	0.000011118	34	5	74%
1983	46	0.000013282	39	7	70%
1984	42	0.000012039	34	8	62%
1985	37	0.000010367	32	5	73%
1986	44	0.00001237	39	5	77%
1987	39	0.000010816	34	5	74%
1988	43	0.000011637	37	6	72%
1989	63	0.000016387	53	10	68%
1990	75	0.000018975	65	10	73%
1991	58	0.00001489	50	8	72%
1992	58	0.000015099	49	9	69%
1993	54	0.000014323	45	9	67%
1994	47	0.000012642	47		100%
1995	37	0.000010103	37		100%
1996	33	0.000009048	24	9	45%
1997	24	0.000006619	18	6	50%
1998	21	0.000005709	21		100%
1999	19	0.000005144	19		100%
2000	18	0.000004762	11	7	22%
2001	16	0.000004274	9	7	13%
2002	9	0.000002408	9		100%
2004	6	0.00000157	6		100%
2005	8	0.000002081		8	-100%

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