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How popular is “Naimah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Naimah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Naimah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Naimah” 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
1976 42 0.000013842 42 100%
1977 51 0.000016055 51 100%
1978 46 0.000014493 46 100%
1979 48 0.000014427 48 100%
1980 41 0.000011903 41 100%
1981 36 0.000010407 36 100%
1982 28 0.000007982 28 100%
1983 27 0.000007796 27 100%
1984 26 0.000007453 26 100%
1985 20 0.000005604 20 100%
1986 28 0.000007872 28 100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1992 29 0.00000755 29 100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 19 0.00000524 19 100%
1998 32 0.0000087 32 100%
1999 36 0.000009746 36 100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 100%
2003 29 0.000007627 29 100%
2004 25 0.000006543 25 100%
2005 74 0.000019247 74 100%
2006 47 0.00001188 47 100%
2007 61 0.000015259 61 100%
2008 72 0.000018318 72 100%
2009 60 0.000015706 60 100%
2010 58 0.000015694 58 100%
2011 77 0.000021051 77 100%
2012 47 0.000012851 47 100%
2013 34 0.000009326 34 100%
2014 38 0.000010253 38 100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 100%
2016 29 0.000007905 29 100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 100%
2018 48 0.000013652 48 100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 100%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 17 0.000005107 17 100%

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