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How popular is “Sameer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sameer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sameer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sameer” 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
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 16 0.000005091 16 -100%
1973 18 0.000005966 18 -100%
1974 23 0.000007566 23 -100%
1975 24 0.000007949 24 -100%
1976 34 0.000011205 34 -100%
1977 35 0.000011018 35 -100%
1978 36 0.000011343 36 -100%
1979 37 0.000011121 37 -100%
1980 34 0.000009871 34 -100%
1981 42 0.000012141 42 -100%
1982 45 0.000012828 45 -100%
1983 50 0.000014437 50 -100%
1984 34 0.000009746 34 -100%
1985 28 0.000007845 28 -100%
1986 39 0.000010964 39 -100%
1987 32 0.000008875 32 -100%
1988 48 0.00001299 48 -100%
1989 47 0.000012225 47 -100%
1990 41 0.000010373 41 -100%
1991 45 0.000011552 45 -100%
1992 50 0.000013017 50 -100%
1993 57 0.000015118 57 -100%
1994 67 0.000018022 67 -100%
1995 57 0.000015565 57 -100%
1996 55 0.00001508 55 -100%
1997 65 0.000017927 65 -100%
1998 52 0.000014137 52 -100%
1999 81 0.000021928 81 -100%
2000 99 0.000026191 99 -100%
2001 123 0.000032858 123 -100%
2002 108 0.00002889 108 -100%
2003 106 0.000027878 106 -100%
2004 119 0.000031144 119 -100%
2005 136 0.000035372 136 -100%
2006 128 0.000032354 128 -100%
2007 90 0.000022513 90 -100%
2008 90 0.000022897 90 -100%
2009 83 0.000021727 83 -100%
2010 77 0.000020835 77 -100%
2011 92 0.000025152 92 -100%
2012 76 0.00002078 76 -100%
2013 67 0.000018378 67 -100%
2014 87 0.000023473 87 -100%
2015 78 0.000021076 78 -100%
2016 66 0.00001799 66 -100%
2017 61 0.000017057 61 -100%
2018 71 0.000020194 71 -100%
2019 48 0.000013829 48 -100%
2020 64 0.000019158 64 -100%
2021 71 0.000020957 71 -100%
2022 59 0.000017439 59 -100%
2023 57 0.000017214 57 -100%
2024 71 0.000021331 71 -100%

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