Name Trends

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How popular is “Sakai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sakai” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sakai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sakai” 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
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 5 8 -23%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 24 0.000006242 9 15 -25%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 7 6 8%
2008 17 0.000004325 6 11 -29%
2009 25 0.000006544 12 13 -4%
2010 26 0.000007035 9 17 -31%
2011 22 0.000006015 8 14 -27%
2012 15 0.000004101 5 10 -33%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2016 12 0.000003271 6 6 0%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 -100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 -100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 -100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 -100%
2021 31 0.00000915 6 25 -61%
2022 68 0.0000201 11 57 -68%
2023 49 0.000014798 49 -100%
2024 65 0.000019528 6 59 -82%

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