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How popular is “Kanye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kanye” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kanye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kanye” 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
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 87 0.000022881 87 -100%
2004 528 0.000138187 19 509 -93%
2005 207 0.000053838 5 202 -95%
2006 101 0.00002553 101 -100%
2007 53 0.000013258 53 -100%
2008 81 0.000020607 81 -100%
2009 64 0.000016753 64 -100%
2010 30 0.000008117 30 -100%
2011 35 0.000009569 35 -100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 -100%
2013 40 0.000010972 40 -100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 -100%
2015 27 0.000007295 27 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 -100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 -100%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 -100%

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