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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Afrika” in the USA?

Number of people named “Afrika” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Afrika” by birth year

This chart shows how “Afrika” 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
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 20 0.000006579 20 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Afrika:

  1. Afraz
  2. Afred
  3. Afreen
  4. Africa
  5. Africia
  6. Afrika (this page)
  7. Afrim
  8. Afrin
  9. Afrodita
  10. Afruza
  11. Afsa