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How popular is “Sirius” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sirius” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sirius” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sirius” 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
1999 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 27 0.000006825 27 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 -100%
2009 24 0.000006282 24 -100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 -100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 -100%
2014 25 0.000006745 25 -100%
2015 40 0.000010808 40 -100%
2016 45 0.000012266 5 40 -78%
2017 38 0.000010626 38 -100%
2018 43 0.00001223 43 -100%
2019 54 0.000015558 54 -100%
2020 37 0.000011076 37 -100%
2021 43 0.000012692 43 -100%
2022 61 0.000018031 61 -100%
2023 53 0.000016006 53 -100%
2024 50 0.000015022 50 -100%

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