How popular is “Sama” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Sama” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Sama” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1983	5	0.000001444	5	100%
1988	6	0.000001624	6	100%
1991	7	0.000001797	7	100%
1994	7	0.000001883	7	100%
1995	6	0.000001638	6	100%
1997	7	0.000001931	7	100%
1998	18	0.000004894	18	100%
1999	9	0.000002436	9	100%
2000	12	0.000003175	12	100%
2001	12	0.000003206	12	100%
2002	17	0.000004548	17	100%
2003	27	0.000007101	27	100%
2004	26	0.000006805	26	100%
2005	21	0.000005462	21	100%
2006	28	0.000007078	28	100%
2007	32	0.000008005	32	100%
2008	33	0.000008396	33	100%
2009	34	0.0000089	34	100%
2010	52	0.00001407	52	100%
2011	47	0.000012849	47	100%
2012	55	0.000015038	55	100%
2013	64	0.000017555	64	100%
2014	77	0.000020775	77	100%
2015	63	0.000017023	63	100%
2016	85	0.000023169	85	100%
2017	100	0.000027963	100	100%
2018	80	0.000022754	80	100%
2019	99	0.000028523	99	100%
2020	83	0.000024846	83	100%
2021	112	0.000033058	112	100%
2022	122	0.000036061	122	100%
2023	116	0.000035033	116	100%
2024	163	0.000048971	163	100%

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