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How popular is “Zahir” in the USA?

Number of people named “Zahir” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Zahir” by birth year

This chart shows how “Zahir” 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
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 -100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 -100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 -100%
1995 17 0.000004642 17 -100%
1996 19 0.000005209 19 -100%
1997 38 0.000010481 38 -100%
1998 33 0.000008972 33 -100%
1999 57 0.000015431 57 -100%
2000 61 0.000016138 61 -100%
2001 59 0.000015761 59 -100%
2002 62 0.000016585 62 -100%
2003 75 0.000019725 75 -100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 95 0.000024708 95 -100%
2006 108 0.000027299 108 -100%
2007 146 0.000036521 7 139 -90%
2008 116 0.000029512 116 -100%
2009 119 0.00003115 119 -100%
2010 139 0.000037611 139 -100%
2011 114 0.000031166 114 -100%
2012 136 0.000037185 136 -100%
2013 137 0.000037579 137 -100%
2014 172 0.000046407 172 -100%
2015 153 0.000041341 153 -100%
2016 178 0.000048519 178 -100%
2017 216 0.000060399 216 -100%
2018 213 0.000060582 213 -100%
2019 232 0.000066841 232 -100%
2020 254 0.000076035 254 -100%
2021 276 0.000081465 276 -100%
2022 288 0.000085128 288 -100%
2023 346 0.000104494 346 -100%
2024 339 0.000101848 339 -100%

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