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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Aisha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Aisha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Aisha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Aisha” 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 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 100%
1966 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1967 24 0.000007069 24 100%
1968 29 0.000008584 29 100%
1969 37 0.000010646 37 100%
1970 51 0.000014141 51 100%
1971 54 0.000015733 54 100%
1972 107 0.000034044 107 100%
1973 223 0.000073917 223 100%
1974 248 0.000081579 248 100%
1975 397 0.000131483 397 100%
1976 546 0.000179943 541 5 98%
1977 1550 0.000487959 1540 10 99%
1978 820 0.00025836 820 100%
1979 662 0.000198978 662 100%
1980 619 0.000179706 619 100%
1981 577 0.000166793 577 100%
1982 481 0.000137117 481 100%
1983 391 0.000112897 391 100%
1984 368 0.000105482 368 100%
1985 339 0.000094982 339 100%
1986 372 0.00010458 372 100%
1987 379 0.000105114 379 100%
1988 366 0.000099052 361 5 97%
1989 373 0.000097023 373 100%
1990 417 0.000105503 410 7 97%
1991 523 0.000134266 523 100%
1992 407 0.000105954 407 100%
1993 398 0.000105562 398 100%
1994 354 0.000095221 354 100%
1995 420 0.000114687 420 100%
1996 413 0.000113238 413 100%
1997 353 0.000097359 353 100%
1998 398 0.000108205 398 100%
1999 325 0.000087984 325 100%
2000 341 0.000090214 341 100%
2001 369 0.000098574 369 100%
2002 407 0.000108873 407 100%
2003 424 0.000111511 424 100%
2004 415 0.000108612 415 100%
2005 372 0.000096753 372 100%
2006 413 0.000104393 413 100%
2007 418 0.000104561 418 100%
2008 385 0.000097948 385 100%
2009 385 0.000100781 385 100%
2010 417 0.000112833 417 100%
2011 447 0.000122205 447 100%
2012 503 0.000137531 503 100%
2013 508 0.000139343 508 100%
2014 544 0.000146774 544 100%
2015 650 0.000175632 650 100%
2016 618 0.000168452 618 100%
2017 562 0.00015715 562 100%
2018 598 0.000170085 598 100%
2019 574 0.000165373 574 100%
2020 562 0.000168234 562 100%
2021 611 0.000180345 611 100%
2022 685 0.000202475 685 100%
2023 813 0.000245531 813 100%
2024 900 0.000270392 900 100%

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