Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kou” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kou” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kou” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kou” 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
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 28 0.000008129 28 -100%
1981 41 0.000011852 7 34 -66%
1982 31 0.000008837 31 -100%
1983 23 0.000006641 23 -100%
1984 32 0.000009172 32 -100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 -100%
1986 34 0.000009558 6 28 -65%
1987 42 0.000011649 5 37 -76%
1988 38 0.000010284 38 -100%
1989 43 0.000011185 43 -100%
1990 46 0.000011638 5 41 -78%
1991 46 0.000011809 5 41 -78%
1992 53 0.000013798 5 48 -81%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 -100%
1994 30 0.00000807 30 -100%
1995 22 0.000006007 22 -100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 -100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%

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