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How popular is “Ahmad” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ahmad” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ahmad” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ahmad” 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
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 -100%
1960 21 0.000005056 21 -100%
1961 21 0.00000507 21 -100%
1962 21 0.000005204 21 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 -100%
1965 21 0.000005792 21 -100%
1966 16 0.000004603 16 -100%
1967 22 0.00000648 22 -100%
1968 29 0.000008584 29 -100%
1969 26 0.000007481 26 -100%
1970 48 0.000013309 48 -100%
1971 64 0.000018646 64 -100%
1972 58 0.000018454 58 -100%
1973 53 0.000017568 53 -100%
1974 111 0.000036513 111 -100%
1975 135 0.000044711 135 -100%
1976 121 0.000039877 121 -100%
1977 213 0.000067055 6 207 -94%
1978 210 0.000066165 6 204 -94%
1979 292 0.000087767 6 286 -96%
1980 236 0.000068515 236 -100%
1981 245 0.000070822 245 -100%
1982 208 0.000059294 208 -100%
1983 179 0.000051684 179 -100%
1984 166 0.000047581 166 -100%
1985 190 0.000053235 190 -100%
1986 248 0.00006972 248 -100%
1987 284 0.000078766 284 -100%
1988 240 0.000064952 240 -100%
1989 316 0.000082196 316 -100%
1990 327 0.000082733 327 -100%
1991 293 0.00007522 293 -100%
1992 309 0.000080442 309 -100%
1993 342 0.000090709 342 -100%
1994 366 0.000098449 366 -100%
1995 347 0.000094753 347 -100%
1996 390 0.000106931 390 -100%
1997 378 0.000104254 378 -100%
1998 608 0.000165298 608 -100%
1999 562 0.000152144 562 -100%
2000 526 0.000139157 526 -100%
2001 662 0.000176845 662 -100%
2002 626 0.000167456 626 -100%
2003 542 0.000142545 542 -100%
2004 508 0.000132952 508 -100%
2005 542 0.000140968 542 -100%
2006 487 0.000123098 487 -100%
2007 462 0.000115567 462 -100%
2008 465 0.000118301 465 -100%
2009 567 0.000148423 567 -100%
2010 494 0.000133667 494 -100%
2011 426 0.000116464 426 -100%
2012 444 0.000121399 444 -100%
2013 458 0.000125629 458 -100%
2014 490 0.000132205 490 -100%
2015 498 0.000134561 498 -100%
2016 466 0.000127021 466 -100%
2017 481 0.000134501 481 -100%
2018 502 0.00014278 502 -100%
2019 454 0.000130801 454 -100%
2020 429 0.000128421 429 -100%
2021 385 0.000113638 385 -100%
2022 437 0.00012917 437 -100%
2023 393 0.000118688 393 -100%
2024 409 0.000122878 409 -100%

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