Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Noor” in the USA?

Number of people named “Noor” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Noor” by birth year

This chart shows how “Noor” 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 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 7 6 8%
1981 18 0.000005203 13 5 44%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 19 0.000005486 19 100%
1984 30 0.000008599 23 7 53%
1985 36 0.000010087 29 7 61%
1986 34 0.000009558 21 13 24%
1987 27 0.000007488 27 100%
1988 48 0.00001299 36 12 50%
1989 56 0.000014566 51 5 82%
1990 66 0.000016698 54 12 64%
1991 100 0.000025672 88 12 76%
1992 85 0.000022128 77 8 81%
1993 114 0.000030236 96 18 68%
1994 107 0.000028782 92 15 72%
1995 111 0.00003031 94 17 69%
1996 137 0.000037563 127 10 85%
1997 131 0.00003613 118 13 80%
1998 139 0.00003779 123 16 77%
1999 218 0.000059017 183 35 68%
2000 217 0.000057409 202 15 86%
2001 234 0.00006251 209 25 79%
2002 228 0.00006099 203 25 78%
2003 234 0.000061541 212 22 81%
2004 224 0.000058625 202 22 80%
2005 248 0.000064502 203 45 64%
2006 259 0.000065467 227 32 75%
2007 246 0.000061536 205 41 67%
2008 268 0.000068182 238 30 78%
2009 252 0.000065966 223 29 77%
2010 267 0.000072245 230 37 72%
2011 268 0.000073268 240 28 79%
2012 246 0.000067262 220 26 79%
2013 251 0.000068849 231 20 84%
2014 280 0.000075545 256 24 83%
2015 314 0.000084844 273 41 74%
2016 341 0.000092949 308 33 81%
2017 350 0.000097869 313 37 79%
2018 358 0.000101823 317 41 77%
2019 319 0.000091906 284 35 78%
2020 336 0.000100581 301 35 79%
2021 363 0.000107144 321 42 77%
2022 422 0.000124736 368 54 74%
2023 401 0.000121104 355 46 77%
2024 433 0.000130089 395 38 82%

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