Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Ali” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ali” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ali” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ali” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 -100%
1954 20 0.000005024 20 -100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 -100%
1959 25 0.000006013 25 -100%
1960 31 0.000007463 6 25 -61%
1961 29 0.000007001 29 -100%
1962 32 0.00000793 32 -100%
1963 35 0.000008842 35 -100%
1964 54 0.00001389 6 48 -78%
1965 46 0.000012688 46 -100%
1966 35 0.00001007 35 -100%
1967 38 0.000011193 38 -100%
1968 52 0.000015392 52 -100%
1969 76 0.000021868 8 68 -79%
1970 110 0.0000305 33 77 -40%
1971 244 0.000071088 108 136 -11%
1972 218 0.000069361 100 118 -8%
1973 214 0.000070934 101 113 -6%
1974 255 0.000083882 97 158 -24%
1975 229 0.000075843 66 163 -42%
1976 269 0.000088653 70 199 -48%
1977 260 0.000081851 64 196 -51%
1978 320 0.000100823 65 255 -59%
1979 400 0.000120228 82 318 -59%
1980 318 0.000092321 69 249 -57%
1981 302 0.000087299 65 237 -57%
1982 331 0.000094357 66 265 -60%
1983 320 0.000092396 81 239 -49%
1984 388 0.000111214 125 263 -36%
1985 444 0.000124401 160 284 -28%
1986 565 0.000158838 280 285 -1%
1987 566 0.000156977 258 308 -9%
1988 559 0.000151284 226 333 -19%
1989 646 0.000168035 261 385 -19%
1990 748 0.000189248 308 440 -18%
1991 724 0.000185867 300 424 -17%
1992 716 0.000186397 269 447 -25%
1993 743 0.000197068 301 442 -19%
1994 792 0.000213038 314 478 -21%
1995 807 0.000220362 291 516 -28%
1996 853 0.000233878 325 528 -24%
1997 893 0.000246294 303 590 -32%
1998 891 0.000242238 269 622 -40%
1999 897 0.000242835 248 649 -45%
2000 918 0.000242863 235 683 -49%
2001 917 0.000244965 202 715 -56%
2002 1063 0.000284355 193 870 -64%
2003 998 0.000262471 188 810 -62%
2004 1010 0.000264334 284 726 -44%
2005 997 0.000259308 238 759 -52%
2006 1068 0.000269957 241 827 -55%
2007 1027 0.000256899 244 783 -52%
2008 1062 0.000270183 320 742 -40%
2009 1102 0.000288468 284 818 -48%
2010 1237 0.00033471 387 850 -37%
2011 1194 0.000326426 391 803 -35%
2012 1178 0.00032209 306 872 -48%
2013 1153 0.000316266 251 902 -56%
2014 1250 0.000337257 240 1010 -62%
2015 1251 0.000338025 190 1061 -70%
2016 1240 0.000337995 153 1087 -75%
2017 1233 0.00034478 117 1116 -81%
2018 1203 0.00034216 110 1093 -82%
2019 1198 0.000345152 129 1069 -78%
2020 1108 0.000331679 92 1016 -83%
2021 1061 0.000313169 103 958 -81%
2022 1212 0.000358248 88 1124 -85%
2023 1140 0.000344286 74 1066 -87%
2024 1131 0.000339793 70 1061 -88%

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