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How popular is “Safiya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Safiya” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Safiya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Safiya” 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
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 100%
1978 29 0.000009137 29 100%
1979 21 0.000006312 21 100%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 100%
1981 38 0.000010985 38 100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 100%
1984 26 0.000007453 26 100%
1985 22 0.000006164 22 100%
1986 28 0.000007872 28 100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 100%
1988 27 0.000007307 27 100%
1989 36 0.000009364 36 100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 100%
1991 22 0.000005648 22 100%
1992 27 0.000007029 27 100%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 100%
1994 22 0.000005918 22 100%
1995 26 0.0000071 26 100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 100%
1998 34 0.000009244 34 100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 100%
2000 37 0.000009789 37 100%
2001 37 0.000009884 37 100%
2002 35 0.000009363 35 100%
2003 41 0.000010783 41 100%
2004 50 0.000013086 50 100%
2005 57 0.000014825 57 100%
2006 55 0.000013902 55 100%
2007 68 0.00001701 68 100%
2008 66 0.000016791 66 100%
2009 71 0.000018586 71 100%
2010 74 0.000020023 74 100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 100%
2012 63 0.000017226 63 100%
2013 72 0.000019749 72 100%
2014 74 0.000019966 74 100%
2015 68 0.000018374 68 100%
2016 88 0.000023987 88 100%
2017 94 0.000026285 94 100%
2018 85 0.000024176 85 100%
2019 105 0.000030251 105 100%
2020 103 0.000030833 103 100%
2021 152 0.000044865 152 100%
2022 147 0.000043451 147 100%
2023 156 0.000047113 156 100%
2024 162 0.000048671 162 100%

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