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How popular is “Tarah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tarah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tarah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tarah” 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
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1970 17 0.000004714 17 100%
1971 25 0.000007284 25 100%
1972 42 0.000013363 42 100%
1973 32 0.000010607 32 100%
1974 45 0.000014803 45 100%
1975 51 0.000016891 51 100%
1976 80 0.000026365 80 100%
1977 145 0.000045648 145 100%
1978 133 0.000041905 133 100%
1979 117 0.000035167 117 100%
1980 179 0.000051967 179 100%
1981 212 0.000061283 212 100%
1982 205 0.000058438 205 100%
1983 262 0.00007565 262 100%
1984 265 0.000075958 265 100%
1985 267 0.000074809 267 100%
1986 188 0.000052852 188 100%
1987 196 0.00005436 196 100%
1988 212 0.000057374 212 100%
1989 196 0.000050983 196 100%
1990 184 0.000046553 184 100%
1991 152 0.000039022 152 100%
1992 125 0.000032541 125 100%
1993 126 0.000033419 126 100%
1994 130 0.000034968 130 100%
1995 95 0.000025941 95 100%
1996 100 0.000027418 100 100%
1997 108 0.000029787 108 100%
1998 75 0.00002039 75 100%
1999 82 0.000022199 82 100%
2000 57 0.00001508 57 100%
2001 58 0.000015494 58 100%
2002 40 0.0000107 40 100%
2003 57 0.000014991 57 100%
2004 46 0.000012039 46 100%
2005 44 0.000011444 44 100%
2006 40 0.000010111 40 100%
2007 29 0.000007254 29 100%
2008 30 0.000007632 30 100%
2009 29 0.000007591 29 100%
2010 27 0.000007306 27 100%
2011 29 0.000007928 29 100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 100%
2014 16 0.000004317 16 100%
2015 20 0.000005404 20 100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 100%

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