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How popular is “Abijah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Abijah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Abijah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Abijah” 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
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1998 16 0.00000435 5 11 -38%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 -100%
2001 13 0.000003473 6 7 -8%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 22 0.000005503 6 16 -45%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 5 12 -41%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 5 8 -23%
2012 13 0.000003554 7 6 8%
2013 26 0.000007132 8 18 -38%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 19 0.000005134 9 10 -5%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 6 12 -33%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 -100%
2019 22 0.000006338 7 15 -36%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 12 0.000003624 5 7 -17%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 -100%

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