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How popular is “Yichen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Yichen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Yichen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Yichen” 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
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 10 10 0%
2013 13 0.000003566 6 7 -8%
2014 17 0.000004587 5 12 -41%
2015 15 0.000004053 6 9 -20%
2016 20 0.000005452 8 12 -20%
2017 24 0.000006711 7 17 -42%
2018 22 0.000006257 7 15 -36%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 26 0.000007783 9 17 -31%
2021 25 0.000007379 6 19 -52%
2022 22 0.000006503 6 16 -45%
2023 19 0.000005738 19 -100%
2024 34 0.000010215 5 29 -71%

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