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How popular is “Tamala” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tamala” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tamala” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tamala” 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
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 32 0.000007615 32 100%
1958 71 0.000017175 71 100%
1959 86 0.000020683 86 100%
1960 104 0.000025037 104 100%
1961 109 0.000026314 109 100%
1962 88 0.000021807 88 100%
1963 134 0.000033854 134 100%
1964 117 0.000030096 117 100%
1965 98 0.000027031 98 100%
1966 123 0.000035389 123 100%
1967 145 0.000042711 145 100%
1968 150 0.0000444 150 100%
1969 121 0.000034817 121 100%
1970 124 0.000034382 124 100%
1971 176 0.000051277 176 100%
1972 131 0.00004168 131 100%
1973 106 0.000035136 106 100%
1974 141 0.000046382 141 100%
1975 107 0.000035438 107 100%
1976 89 0.000029331 89 100%
1977 63 0.000019833 63 100%
1978 53 0.000016699 53 100%
1979 50 0.000015029 50 100%
1980 48 0.000013935 48 100%
1981 51 0.000014743 51 100%
1982 59 0.000016819 59 100%
1983 33 0.000009528 33 100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 100%
1985 22 0.000006164 22 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%

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