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How popular is “Naja” in the USA?

Number of people named “Naja” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Naja” by birth year

This chart shows how “Naja” 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
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 100%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 100%
1981 30 0.000008672 30 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 47 0.00001272 47 100%
1989 33 0.000008584 33 100%
1990 30 0.00000759 30 100%
1991 21 0.000005391 21 100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 100%
1993 31 0.000008222 31 100%
1994 50 0.000013449 50 100%
1995 37 0.000010103 37 100%
1996 35 0.000009596 35 100%
1997 35 0.000009653 35 100%
1998 150 0.000040781 150 100%
1999 71 0.000019221 71 100%
2000 60 0.000015873 60 100%
2001 53 0.000014158 53 100%
2002 38 0.000010165 38 100%
2003 48 0.000012624 48 100%
2004 35 0.00000916 35 100%
2005 44 0.000011444 38 6 73%
2006 34 0.000008594 34 100%
2007 27 0.000006754 27 100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 100%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%

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