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How popular is “Messi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Messi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Messi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Messi” 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
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 -100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 -100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 -100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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