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How popular is “Afnan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Afnan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Afnan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Afnan” 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
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 15 0.000004013 10 5 33%
2003 15 0.000003945 8 7 7%
2004 22 0.000005758 13 9 18%
2005 22 0.000005722 17 5 55%
2006 19 0.000004803 13 6 37%
2007 25 0.000006254 16 9 28%
2008 26 0.000006615 18 8 38%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 29 0.000007847 24 5 66%
2011 20 0.000005468 14 6 40%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 100%
2014 20 0.000005396 15 5 50%
2015 35 0.000009457 27 8 54%
2016 38 0.000010358 23 15 21%
2017 43 0.000012024 30 13 40%
2018 40 0.000011377 22 18 10%
2019 40 0.000011524 30 10 50%
2020 32 0.000009579 20 12 25%
2021 51 0.000015053 42 9 65%
2022 35 0.000010345 28 7 60%
2023 46 0.000013892 35 11 52%
2024 57 0.000017125 45 12 58%

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