Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Affan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Affan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Affan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Affan” 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
1998 8 0.000002175 8 -100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 -100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 -100%
2015 39 0.000010538 39 -100%
2016 29 0.000007905 29 -100%
2017 35 0.000009787 35 -100%
2018 35 0.000009955 35 -100%
2019 55 0.000015846 55 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 24 0.000007084 24 -100%
2022 33 0.000009754 33 -100%
2023 43 0.000012986 43 -100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 -100%

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