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How popular is “Samirah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Samirah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Samirah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Samirah” 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
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 17 0.000004601 17 100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 100%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 100%
2000 30 0.000007937 30 100%
2001 36 0.000009617 36 100%
2002 41 0.000010968 41 100%
2003 48 0.000012624 48 100%
2004 57 0.000014918 57 100%
2005 74 0.000019247 74 100%
2006 81 0.000020474 81 100%
2007 80 0.000020012 80 100%
2008 75 0.000019081 75 100%
2009 75 0.000019633 75 100%
2010 79 0.000021376 79 100%
2011 66 0.000018044 66 100%
2012 81 0.000022147 81 100%
2013 84 0.000023041 84 100%
2014 66 0.000017807 66 100%
2015 55 0.000014861 55 100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 100%
2017 60 0.000016778 60 100%
2018 62 0.000017634 62 100%
2019 59 0.000016998 59 100%
2020 54 0.000016165 54 100%
2021 64 0.00001889 64 100%
2022 78 0.000023056 78 100%
2023 49 0.000014798 49 100%
2024 56 0.000016824 56 100%

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