Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Samir” in the USA?

Number of people named “Samir” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Samir” by birth year

This chart shows how “Samir” 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
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 -100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 -100%
1969 41 0.000011797 41 -100%
1970 38 0.000010536 38 -100%
1971 34 0.000009906 34 -100%
1972 39 0.000012409 39 -100%
1973 49 0.000016242 49 -100%
1974 59 0.000019408 59 -100%
1975 59 0.00001954 59 -100%
1976 50 0.000016478 50 -100%
1977 80 0.000025185 80 -100%
1978 77 0.000024261 77 -100%
1979 79 0.000023745 79 -100%
1980 86 0.000024967 86 -100%
1981 65 0.00001879 65 -100%
1982 90 0.000025656 90 -100%
1983 80 0.000023099 80 -100%
1984 93 0.000026657 93 -100%
1985 97 0.000027178 97 -100%
1986 73 0.000020522 73 -100%
1987 94 0.00002607 94 -100%
1988 94 0.000025439 94 -100%
1989 104 0.000027052 104 -100%
1990 121 0.000030614 121 -100%
1991 121 0.000031063 121 -100%
1992 124 0.000032281 124 -100%
1993 112 0.000029706 112 -100%
1994 128 0.00003443 128 -100%
1995 118 0.000032221 118 -100%
1996 123 0.000033725 123 -100%
1997 147 0.000040543 147 -100%
1998 167 0.000045403 167 -100%
1999 164 0.000044398 164 -100%
2000 193 0.000051059 193 -100%
2001 201 0.000053695 201 -100%
2002 198 0.000052965 198 -100%
2003 229 0.000060226 12 217 -90%
2004 227 0.00005941 5 222 -96%
2005 247 0.000064242 247 -100%
2006 249 0.000062939 5 244 -96%
2007 262 0.000065538 5 257 -96%
2008 255 0.000064875 255 -100%
2009 321 0.000084028 6 315 -96%
2010 271 0.000073328 5 266 -96%
2011 327 0.000089398 8 319 -95%
2012 301 0.0000823 301 -100%
2013 298 0.000081741 8 290 -95%
2014 310 0.00008364 310 -100%
2015 336 0.000090788 5 331 -97%
2016 302 0.000082318 302 -100%
2017 335 0.000093675 335 -100%
2018 326 0.000092722 326 -100%
2019 367 0.000105735 5 362 -97%
2020 413 0.000123631 413 -100%
2021 394 0.000116295 394 -100%
2022 483 0.000142767 483 -100%
2023 493 0.000148889 5 488 -98%
2024 484 0.000145411 484 -100%

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