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How popular is “Klay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Klay” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Klay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Klay” 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
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 -100%
1988 17 0.000004601 17 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 -100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 -100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 -100%
1995 24 0.000006554 24 -100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 -100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 -100%
1998 22 0.000005981 22 -100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 -100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 -100%
2001 19 0.000005076 19 -100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 -100%
2003 20 0.00000526 20 -100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 -100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 -100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 29 0.000007955 29 -100%
2014 30 0.000008094 30 -100%
2015 64 0.000017293 64 -100%
2016 98 0.000026712 98 -100%
2017 76 0.000021252 76 -100%
2018 90 0.000025598 90 -100%
2019 91 0.000026218 91 -100%
2020 93 0.00002784 93 -100%
2021 69 0.000020366 69 -100%
2022 103 0.000030445 103 -100%
2023 98 0.000029597 98 -100%
2024 71 0.000021331 71 -100%

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