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How popular is “Safari” in the USA?

Number of people named “Safari” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Safari” by birth year

This chart shows how “Safari” 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
1992 7 0.000001822 7 100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2008 21 0.000005343 21 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 21 0.000005666 16 5 52%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 100%
2016 27 0.00000736 15 12 11%
2017 31 0.000008668 16 15 3%
2018 33 0.000009386 15 18 -9%
2019 18 0.000005186 11 7 22%
2020 25 0.000007484 14 11 12%
2021 25 0.000007379 15 10 20%
2022 42 0.000012415 27 15 29%
2023 43 0.000012986 19 24 -12%
2024 25 0.000007511 13 12 4%

Explore other names

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  5. Safaree
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  8. Safeara
  9. Safee
  10. Safeer
  11. Safeerah