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How popular is “Tamar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tamar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tamar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tamar” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1948 15 0.000004345 15 100%
1949 17 0.000004878 17 100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 100%
1951 19 0.000005158 19 100%
1952 20 0.000005266 20 100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 22 0.000005479 22 100%
1956 27 0.000006549 27 100%
1957 28 0.000006663 28 100%
1958 45 0.000010886 45 100%
1959 35 0.000008418 35 100%
1960 51 0.000012278 51 100%
1961 51 0.000012312 51 100%
1962 54 0.000013382 54 100%
1963 50 0.000012632 50 100%
1964 47 0.00001209 47 100%
1965 78 0.000021515 78 100%
1966 77 0.000022154 77 100%
1967 57 0.00001679 57 100%
1968 72 0.000021312 72 100%
1969 69 0.000019854 69 100%
1970 87 0.000024123 80 7 84%
1971 85 0.000024764 85 100%
1972 76 0.000024181 70 6 84%
1973 100 0.000033147 93 7 86%
1974 116 0.000038158 103 13 78%
1975 110 0.000036431 94 16 71%
1976 124 0.000040866 101 23 63%
1977 149 0.000046907 133 16 79%
1978 135 0.000042535 112 23 66%
1979 148 0.000044485 132 16 78%
1980 115 0.000033386 95 20 65%
1981 137 0.000039603 119 18 74%
1982 138 0.000039339 124 14 80%
1983 145 0.000041867 126 19 74%
1984 133 0.000038122 123 10 85%
1985 141 0.000039506 124 17 76%
1986 107 0.000030081 90 17 68%
1987 112 0.000031063 90 22 61%
1988 125 0.000033829 106 19 70%
1989 120 0.000031214 105 15 75%
1990 104 0.000026313 84 20 62%
1991 101 0.000025929 82 19 62%
1992 113 0.000029417 99 14 75%
1993 90 0.000023871 81 9 80%
1994 103 0.000027706 84 19 63%
1995 115 0.000031402 92 23 60%
1996 111 0.000030434 92 19 66%
1997 117 0.000032269 95 22 62%
1998 121 0.000032896 89 32 47%
1999 133 0.000036006 103 30 55%
2000 142 0.000037567 100 42 41%
2001 123 0.000032858 94 29 53%
2002 124 0.00003317 103 21 66%
2003 138 0.000036294 109 29 58%
2004 109 0.000028527 88 21 61%
2005 109 0.00002835 87 22 60%
2006 101 0.00002553 84 17 66%
2007 115 0.000028767 90 25 57%
2008 117 0.000029766 91 26 56%
2009 86 0.000022512 70 16 63%
2010 88 0.000023811 66 22 50%
2011 100 0.000027339 82 18 64%
2012 105 0.000028709 90 15 71%
2013 124 0.000034013 108 16 74%
2014 110 0.000029679 98 12 78%
2015 91 0.000024589 84 7 85%
2016 96 0.000026167 85 11 77%
2017 74 0.000020692 66 8 78%
2018 70 0.00001991 70 100%
2019 67 0.000019303 62 5 85%
2020 65 0.000019458 59 6 82%
2021 71 0.000020957 66 5 86%
2022 71 0.000020986 71 100%
2023 77 0.000023254 70 7 82%
2024 77 0.000023134 77 100%

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