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How popular is “Alaija” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alaija” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alaija” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alaija” 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
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 23 0.000006019 23 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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