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How popular is “Samar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Samar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Samar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Samar” 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 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 5 6 -9%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 100%
1978 22 0.000006932 15 7 36%
1979 15 0.000004509 8 7 7%
1980 19 0.000005516 13 6 37%
1981 27 0.000007805 22 5 63%
1982 25 0.000007127 16 9 28%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 25 0.000007166 20 5 60%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 100%
1989 22 0.000005723 15 7 36%
1990 28 0.000007084 21 7 50%
1991 30 0.000007702 25 5 67%
1992 20 0.000005207 20 100%
1993 30 0.000007957 24 6 60%
1994 33 0.000008877 26 7 58%
1995 27 0.000007373 21 6 56%
1996 37 0.000010145 29 8 57%
1997 26 0.000007171 26 100%
1998 44 0.000011962 33 11 50%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 34 0.000008995 29 5 71%
2001 33 0.000008816 17 16 3%
2002 38 0.000010165 26 12 37%
2003 36 0.000009468 27 9 50%
2004 44 0.000011516 22 22 0%
2005 55 0.000014305 18 37 -35%
2006 38 0.000009605 13 25 -32%
2007 42 0.000010506 16 26 -24%
2008 42 0.000010685 18 24 -14%
2009 34 0.0000089 17 17 0%
2010 64 0.000017317 33 31 3%
2011 47 0.000012849 15 32 -36%
2012 58 0.000015858 22 36 -24%
2013 67 0.000018378 21 46 -37%
2014 88 0.000023743 28 60 -36%
2015 91 0.000024589 29 62 -36%
2016 98 0.000026712 31 67 -37%
2017 100 0.000027963 28 72 -44%
2018 104 0.00002958 28 76 -46%
2019 103 0.000029675 30 73 -42%
2020 89 0.000026642 22 67 -51%
2021 117 0.000034534 32 85 -45%
2022 116 0.000034288 24 92 -59%
2023 83 0.000025066 27 56 -35%
2024 89 0.000026739 27 62 -39%

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