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How popular is “Taj” in the USA?

Number of people named “Taj” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Taj” by birth year

This chart shows how “Taj” 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
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 16 0.000004436 5 11 -38%
1971 18 0.000005244 18 -100%
1972 31 0.000009863 5 26 -68%
1973 69 0.000022871 15 54 -57%
1974 43 0.000014145 43 -100%
1975 66 0.000021859 5 61 -85%
1976 72 0.000023729 72 -100%
1977 74 0.000023296 7 67 -81%
1978 64 0.000020165 8 56 -75%
1979 42 0.000012624 42 -100%
1980 52 0.000015097 9 43 -65%
1981 46 0.000013297 7 39 -70%
1982 46 0.000013113 6 40 -74%
1983 39 0.000011261 8 31 -59%
1984 46 0.000013185 7 39 -70%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 -100%
1986 39 0.000010964 12 27 -38%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 -100%
1988 32 0.00000866 32 -100%
1989 43 0.000011185 8 35 -63%
1990 69 0.000017457 5 64 -86%
1991 100 0.000025672 9 91 -82%
1992 64 0.000016661 8 56 -75%
1993 81 0.000021484 6 75 -85%
1994 91 0.000024478 12 79 -74%
1995 79 0.000021572 7 72 -82%
1996 88 0.000024128 8 80 -82%
1997 127 0.000035027 16 111 -75%
1998 163 0.000044315 17 146 -79%
1999 137 0.000037089 9 128 -87%
2000 133 0.000035186 11 122 -83%
2001 138 0.000036865 10 128 -86%
2002 134 0.000035845 8 126 -88%
2003 160 0.00004208 9 151 -89%
2004 141 0.000036902 12 129 -83%
2005 177 0.000046036 8 169 -91%
2006 160 0.000040443 10 150 -88%
2007 159 0.000039773 10 149 -87%
2008 179 0.000045539 12 167 -87%
2009 200 0.000052354 9 191 -91%
2010 205 0.000055469 8 197 -92%
2011 204 0.000055771 15 189 -85%
2012 181 0.000049489 8 173 -91%
2013 171 0.000046905 15 156 -82%
2014 155 0.00004182 12 143 -85%
2015 218 0.000058904 18 200 -83%
2016 178 0.000048519 11 167 -88%
2017 178 0.000049774 19 159 -79%
2018 191 0.000054325 20 171 -79%
2019 179 0.000051571 17 162 -81%
2020 186 0.000055679 16 170 -83%
2021 182 0.00005372 23 159 -75%
2022 157 0.000046407 14 143 -82%
2023 144 0.000043489 20 124 -72%
2024 153 0.000045967 29 124 -62%

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