How popular is “Alaa” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Alaa” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Alaa” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1979	5	0.000001503		5	-100%
1980	7	0.000002032		7	-100%
1981	11	0.00000318	11		100%
1982	17	0.000004846	11	6	29%
1983	19	0.000005486	11	8	16%
1984	23	0.000006593	12	11	4%
1985	15	0.000004203	10	5	33%
1986	17	0.000004779	6	11	-29%
1987	23	0.000006379	15	8	30%
1988	19	0.000005142	9	10	-5%
1989	33	0.000008584	18	15	9%
1990	33	0.000008349	22	11	33%
1991	45	0.000011552	32	13	42%
1992	48	0.000012496	28	20	17%
1993	39	0.000010344	26	13	33%
1994	48	0.000012911	24	24	0%
1995	54	0.000014745	31	23	15%
1996	44	0.000012064	32	12	45%
1997	40	0.000011032	28	12	40%
1998	43	0.00001169	30	13	40%
1999	45	0.000012182	35	10	56%
2000	62	0.000016403	48	14	55%
2001	56	0.00001496	39	17	39%
2002	42	0.000011235	27	15	29%
2003	35	0.000009205	25	10	43%
2004	49	0.000012824	36	13	47%
2005	37	0.000009623	31	6	68%
2006	39	0.000009858	32	7	64%
2007	37	0.000009255	29	8	57%
2008	47	0.000011957	41	6	74%
2009	43	0.000011256	31	12	44%
2010	44	0.000011906	35	9	59%
2011	53	0.00001449	43	10	62%
2012	54	0.000014765	46	8	70%
2013	58	0.000015909	49	9	69%
2014	55	0.000014839	50	5	82%
2015	56	0.000015131	56		100%
2016	64	0.000017445	52	12	63%
2017	69	0.000019294	61	8	77%
2018	60	0.000017065	52	8	73%
2019	67	0.000019303	59	8	76%
2020	52	0.000015566	46	6	77%
2021	55	0.000016234	48	7	75%
2022	59	0.000017439	51	8	73%
2023	45	0.00001359	38	7	69%
2024	67	0.000020129	59	8	76%

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