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How popular is “Knowledge” in the USA?

Number of people named “Knowledge” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Knowledge” by birth year

This chart shows how “Knowledge” 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
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 -100%
2000 20 0.000005291 20 -100%
2001 31 0.000008281 31 -100%
2002 38 0.000010165 38 -100%
2003 24 0.000006312 24 -100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 -100%
2005 33 0.000008583 33 -100%
2006 41 0.000010364 41 -100%
2007 34 0.000008505 34 -100%
2008 40 0.000010176 40 -100%
2009 53 0.000013874 53 -100%
2010 50 0.000013529 50 -100%
2011 61 0.000016677 61 -100%
2012 67 0.000018319 67 -100%
2013 56 0.000015361 5 51 -82%
2014 76 0.000020505 5 71 -87%
2015 76 0.000020535 76 -100%
2016 122 0.000033254 9 113 -85%
2017 114 0.000031877 7 107 -88%
2018 150 0.000042663 11 139 -85%
2019 168 0.000048402 8 160 -90%
2020 218 0.000065258 14 204 -87%
2021 195 0.000057557 18 177 -82%
2022 213 0.000062959 15 198 -86%
2023 199 0.000060099 11 188 -89%
2024 194 0.000058284 10 184 -90%

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