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How popular is “Acacia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Acacia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Acacia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Acacia” 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 16 0.000004662 16 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 15 0.000004972 15 100%
1974 14 0.000004605 14 100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 100%
1976 26 0.000008569 26 100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 100%
1978 20 0.000006301 20 100%
1979 33 0.000009919 33 100%
1980 32 0.00000929 32 100%
1981 35 0.000010117 35 100%
1982 34 0.000009692 34 100%
1983 26 0.000007507 26 100%
1984 57 0.000016338 57 100%
1985 51 0.000014289 51 100%
1986 62 0.00001743 62 100%
1987 68 0.000018859 68 100%
1988 65 0.000017591 65 100%
1989 83 0.00002159 83 100%
1990 85 0.000021505 85 100%
1991 91 0.000023362 91 100%
1992 114 0.000029678 114 100%
1993 114 0.000030236 114 100%
1994 124 0.000033354 124 100%
1995 106 0.000028945 106 100%
1996 121 0.000033176 121 100%
1997 128 0.000035303 128 100%
1998 135 0.000036703 135 100%
1999 132 0.000035735 132 100%
2000 138 0.000036509 138 100%
2001 124 0.000033125 124 100%
2002 143 0.000038253 143 100%
2003 123 0.000032349 123 100%
2004 122 0.000031929 122 100%
2005 90 0.000023408 90 100%
2006 118 0.000029827 118 100%
2007 101 0.000025265 101 100%
2008 127 0.00003231 127 100%
2009 107 0.000028009 107 100%
2010 88 0.000023811 88 100%
2011 100 0.000027339 100 100%
2012 78 0.000021327 78 100%
2013 80 0.000021944 80 100%
2014 92 0.000024822 92 100%
2015 103 0.000027831 103 100%
2016 88 0.000023987 88 100%
2017 93 0.000026005 93 100%
2018 87 0.000024745 87 100%
2019 76 0.000021896 76 100%
2020 81 0.000024247 81 100%
2021 64 0.00001889 64 100%
2022 69 0.000020395 69 100%
2023 59 0.000017818 59 100%
2024 63 0.000018927 63 100%

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