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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Samay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Samay” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Samay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Samay” 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
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 -100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 -100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 -100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 -100%
2007 22 0.000005503 22 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 5 14 -47%
2015 14 0.000003783 5 9 -29%
2016 22 0.000005997 5 17 -55%
2017 17 0.000004754 5 12 -41%
2018 23 0.000006542 10 13 -13%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 -100%
2021 21 0.000006198 21 -100%
2022 36 0.000010641 11 25 -39%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 -100%
2024 35 0.000010515 35 -100%

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