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How popular is “Salah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Salah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Salah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Salah” 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
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 -100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 -100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 20 0.000005484 20 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 28 0.00000749 5 23 -64%
2003 22 0.000005786 22 -100%
2004 33 0.000008637 7 26 -58%
2005 37 0.000009623 8 29 -57%
2006 40 0.000010111 6 34 -70%
2007 39 0.000009756 8 31 -59%
2008 31 0.000007887 5 26 -68%
2009 40 0.000010471 10 30 -50%
2010 33 0.000008929 33 -100%
2011 30 0.000008202 30 -100%
2012 37 0.000010117 10 27 -46%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 -100%
2014 35 0.000009443 35 -100%
2015 29 0.000007836 29 -100%
2016 39 0.00001063 10 29 -49%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 -100%
2018 38 0.000010808 38 -100%
2019 56 0.000016134 7 49 -75%
2020 32 0.000009579 6 26 -63%
2021 51 0.000015053 25 26 -2%
2022 48 0.000014188 16 32 -33%
2023 60 0.00001812 21 39 -30%
2024 62 0.000018627 29 33 -6%

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