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How popular is “Kaela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kaela” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kaela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kaela” 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
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 100%
1982 46 0.000013113 46 100%
1983 51 0.000014726 51 100%
1984 51 0.000014618 51 100%
1985 72 0.000020173 72 100%
1986 90 0.000025302 90 100%
1987 182 0.000050477 182 100%
1988 192 0.000051962 192 100%
1989 252 0.000065549 252 100%
1990 248 0.000062745 248 100%
1991 258 0.000066234 258 100%
1992 242 0.000063 242 100%
1993 235 0.00006233 235 100%
1994 258 0.000069399 258 100%
1995 299 0.000081646 299 100%
1996 345 0.000094593 345 100%
1997 335 0.000092395 335 100%
1998 304 0.000082649 304 100%
1999 323 0.000087442 323 100%
2000 254 0.000067197 254 100%
2001 265 0.000070791 265 100%
2002 240 0.0000642 240 100%
2003 226 0.000059437 226 100%
2004 196 0.000051297 196 100%
2005 172 0.000044735 172 100%
2006 166 0.00004196 166 100%
2007 168 0.000042024 168 100%
2008 139 0.000035363 139 100%
2009 87 0.000022774 87 100%
2010 72 0.000019482 72 100%
2011 67 0.000018317 67 100%
2012 59 0.000016132 59 100%
2013 42 0.000011521 42 100%
2014 47 0.000012681 47 100%
2015 32 0.000008647 32 100%
2016 46 0.000012539 46 100%
2017 27 0.00000755 27 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 100%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 100%

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