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How popular is “Abu” in the USA?

Number of people named “Abu” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Abu” by birth year

This chart shows how “Abu” 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
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 -100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 -100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 -100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 -100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 -100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 -100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 -100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 -100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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