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How popular is “Akela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Akela” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Akela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Akela” 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
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 14 0.000003991 14 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 100%
1994 26 0.000006994 26 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 100%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1998 15 0.000004078 15 100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 100%
2006 23 0.000005814 23 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 14 0.000003816 9 5 29%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 19 0.000005404 13 6 37%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 12 8 20%
2021 13 0.000003837 7 6 8%
2022 13 0.000003843 7 6 8%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 -100%

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