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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Adama” in the USA?

Number of people named “Adama” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Adama” by birth year

This chart shows how “Adama” 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 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1978 12 0.000003781 6 6 0%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 -100%
1980 18 0.000005226 6 12 -33%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 17 0.000004873 7 10 -18%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 13 0.000003605 6 7 -8%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 9 7 13%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 100%
1996 13 0.000003564 5 8 -23%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1998 21 0.000005709 13 8 24%
1999 29 0.000007851 19 10 31%
2000 21 0.000005556 13 8 24%
2001 31 0.000008281 23 8 48%
2002 31 0.000008293 19 12 23%
2003 21 0.000005523 11 10 5%
2004 31 0.000008113 22 9 42%
2005 37 0.000009623 21 16 14%
2006 33 0.000008341 23 10 39%
2007 41 0.000010256 28 13 37%
2008 26 0.000006615 13 13 0%
2009 34 0.0000089 19 15 12%
2010 26 0.000007035 16 10 23%
2011 41 0.000011209 24 17 17%
2012 31 0.000008476 15 16 -3%
2013 32 0.000008778 15 17 -6%
2014 28 0.000007555 14 14 0%
2015 40 0.000010808 25 15 25%
2016 34 0.000009268 19 15 12%
2017 41 0.000011465 22 19 7%
2018 36 0.000010239 24 12 33%
2019 32 0.000009219 22 10 38%
2020 40 0.000011974 24 16 20%
2021 26 0.000007674 17 9 31%
2022 37 0.000010937 21 16 14%
2023 35 0.00001057 20 15 14%
2024 35 0.000010515 17 18 -3%

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