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How popular is “Alessa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alessa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alessa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alessa” 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
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 100%
1993 27 0.000007161 27 100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 100%
1995 22 0.000006007 22 100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 100%
1998 21 0.000005709 21 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 27 0.000007143 27 100%
2001 44 0.000011754 44 100%
2002 36 0.00000963 36 100%
2003 39 0.000010257 39 100%
2004 30 0.000007852 30 100%
2005 42 0.000010924 42 100%
2006 69 0.000017441 69 100%
2007 120 0.000030017 120 100%
2008 127 0.00003231 127 100%
2009 106 0.000027747 106 100%
2010 77 0.000020835 77 100%
2011 96 0.000026245 96 100%
2012 73 0.00001996 73 100%
2013 124 0.000034013 124 100%
2014 130 0.000035075 130 100%
2015 130 0.000035126 130 100%
2016 174 0.000047428 174 100%
2017 143 0.000039987 143 100%
2018 155 0.000044085 155 100%
2019 129 0.000037166 129 100%
2020 156 0.000046699 156 100%
2021 134 0.000039552 134 100%
2022 164 0.000048476 164 100%
2023 133 0.000040167 133 100%
2024 121 0.000036353 121 100%

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