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How popular is “Kiran” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kiran” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kiran” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kiran” 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
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1970 17 0.000004714 9 8 6%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 5 5 0%
1974 17 0.000005592 11 6 29%
1975 33 0.000010929 23 10 39%
1976 27 0.000008898 12 15 -11%
1977 31 0.000009759 17 14 10%
1978 21 0.000006617 6 15 -43%
1979 34 0.000010219 20 14 18%
1980 39 0.000011322 22 17 13%
1981 37 0.000010696 22 15 19%
1982 42 0.000011973 25 17 19%
1983 39 0.000011261 23 16 18%
1984 33 0.000009459 18 15 9%
1985 32 0.000008966 19 13 19%
1986 44 0.00001237 33 11 50%
1987 28 0.000007766 21 7 50%
1988 47 0.00001272 31 16 32%
1989 47 0.000012225 35 12 49%
1990 38 0.000009614 27 11 42%
1991 58 0.00001489 38 20 31%
1992 50 0.000013017 25 25 0%
1993 58 0.000015383 28 30 -3%
1994 68 0.000018291 43 25 26%
1995 65 0.000017749 43 22 32%
1996 90 0.000024676 53 37 18%
1997 71 0.000019582 37 34 4%
1998 106 0.000028818 61 45 15%
1999 116 0.000031403 55 61 -5%
2000 109 0.000028837 57 52 5%
2001 111 0.000029652 58 53 5%
2002 148 0.00003959 77 71 4%
2003 145 0.000038135 64 81 -12%
2004 154 0.000040304 67 87 -13%
2005 158 0.000041094 71 87 -10%
2006 163 0.000041201 73 90 -10%
2007 164 0.000041024 76 88 -7%
2008 198 0.000050373 79 119 -20%
2009 176 0.000046071 60 116 -32%
2010 141 0.000038152 39 102 -45%
2011 146 0.000039915 44 102 -40%
2012 161 0.000044021 42 119 -48%
2013 151 0.000041419 37 114 -51%
2014 135 0.000036424 38 97 -44%
2015 156 0.000042152 32 124 -59%
2016 138 0.000037616 33 105 -52%
2017 123 0.000034394 24 99 -61%
2018 124 0.000035268 26 98 -58%
2019 110 0.000031692 17 93 -69%
2020 111 0.000033228 12 99 -78%
2021 130 0.000038371 12 118 -82%
2022 118 0.000034879 10 108 -83%
2023 120 0.000036241 11 109 -82%
2024 152 0.000045666 10 142 -87%

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