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How popular is “Saleh” in the USA?

Number of people named “Saleh” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Saleh” by birth year

This chart shows how “Saleh” 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
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 -100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 -100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 -100%
1989 24 0.000006243 24 -100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 -100%
1991 25 0.000006418 25 -100%
1992 29 0.00000755 29 -100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 -100%
1994 21 0.000005649 21 -100%
1995 26 0.0000071 26 -100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 -100%
1997 26 0.000007171 26 -100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 -100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 -100%
2000 26 0.000006878 26 -100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 -100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 -100%
2003 32 0.000008416 32 -100%
2004 36 0.000009422 36 -100%
2005 43 0.000011184 43 -100%
2006 35 0.000008847 35 -100%
2007 50 0.000012507 50 -100%
2008 49 0.000012466 49 -100%
2009 38 0.000009947 38 -100%
2010 36 0.000009741 36 -100%
2011 45 0.000012303 45 -100%
2012 48 0.000013124 48 -100%
2013 54 0.000014812 54 -100%
2014 59 0.000015919 59 -100%
2015 56 0.000015131 56 -100%
2016 75 0.000020443 75 -100%
2017 74 0.000020692 74 -100%
2018 83 0.000023607 83 -100%
2019 61 0.000017575 61 -100%
2020 63 0.000018859 63 -100%
2021 61 0.000018005 61 -100%
2022 80 0.000023647 6 74 -85%
2023 79 0.000023858 79 -100%
2024 80 0.000024035 80 -100%

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