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How popular is “Sakura” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sakura” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sakura” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sakura” 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
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 12 0.000003081 12 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 100%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 100%
2001 59 0.000015761 59 100%
2002 51 0.000013643 51 100%
2003 45 0.000011835 45 100%
2004 60 0.000015703 60 100%
2005 55 0.000014305 55 100%
2006 65 0.00001643 65 100%
2007 77 0.000019261 77 100%
2008 76 0.000019335 76 100%
2009 85 0.00002225 85 100%
2010 80 0.000021647 80 100%
2011 81 0.000022145 81 100%
2012 87 0.000023788 87 100%
2013 75 0.000020572 75 100%
2014 64 0.000017268 64 100%
2015 67 0.000018104 67 100%
2016 60 0.000016355 60 100%
2017 68 0.000019015 68 100%
2018 60 0.000017065 60 100%
2019 60 0.000017286 60 100%
2020 53 0.000015866 53 100%
2021 58 0.00001712 58 100%
2022 51 0.000015075 51 100%
2023 47 0.000014194 47 100%
2024 55 0.000016524 55 100%

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