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How popular is “Shayan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shayan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shayan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shayan” 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
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 -100%
1989 20 0.000005202 20 -100%
1990 25 0.000006325 25 -100%
1991 33 0.000008472 33 -100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 -100%
1993 40 0.000010609 40 -100%
1994 50 0.000013449 50 -100%
1995 56 0.000015292 5 51 -82%
1996 58 0.000015903 6 52 -79%
1997 61 0.000016824 6 55 -80%
1998 48 0.00001305 48 -100%
1999 71 0.000019221 7 64 -80%
2000 57 0.00001508 57 -100%
2001 55 0.000014693 55 -100%
2002 62 0.000016585 5 57 -84%
2003 66 0.000017358 7 59 -79%
2004 57 0.000014918 5 52 -82%
2005 72 0.000018726 5 67 -86%
2006 65 0.00001643 65 -100%
2007 63 0.000015759 63 -100%
2008 70 0.000017809 7 63 -80%
2009 74 0.000019371 74 -100%
2010 61 0.000016505 5 56 -84%
2011 56 0.00001531 56 -100%
2012 63 0.000017226 63 -100%
2013 69 0.000018927 69 -100%
2014 78 0.000021045 78 -100%
2015 74 0.000019995 74 -100%
2016 64 0.000017445 64 -100%
2017 60 0.000016778 60 -100%
2018 67 0.000019056 67 -100%
2019 73 0.000021032 73 -100%
2020 86 0.000025744 86 -100%
2021 73 0.000021547 73 -100%
2022 84 0.000024829 84 -100%
2023 84 0.000025368 84 -100%
2024 94 0.000028241 94 -100%

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