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How popular is “Alisa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alisa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alisa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alisa” 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
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 100%
1949 13 0.000003731 13 100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 100%
1951 26 0.000007058 26 100%
1952 61 0.000016061 61 100%
1953 99 0.00002569 99 100%
1954 137 0.000034416 137 100%
1955 185 0.000046076 185 100%
1956 243 0.000058937 243 100%
1957 264 0.000062825 264 100%
1958 419 0.000101357 419 100%
1959 491 0.000118086 491 100%
1960 585 0.000140834 585 100%
1961 601 0.000145088 601 100%
1962 667 0.000165288 667 100%
1963 939 0.000237229 934 5 99%
1964 820 0.000210927 820 100%
1965 924 0.000254865 924 100%
1966 862 0.000248011 862 100%
1967 921 0.00027129 921 100%
1968 999 0.000295701 999 100%
1969 1108 0.000318819 1108 100%
1970 1153 0.000319699 1153 100%
1971 1068 0.000311157 1063 5 99%
1972 780 0.000248171 775 5 99%
1973 787 0.000260865 787 100%
1974 667 0.000219408 667 100%
1975 576 0.000190767 576 100%
1976 587 0.000193455 587 100%
1977 641 0.000201795 641 100%
1978 575 0.000181167 575 100%
1979 769 0.000231139 762 7 98%
1980 621 0.000180287 621 100%
1981 570 0.00016477 570 100%
1982 512 0.000145954 512 100%
1983 508 0.000146679 508 100%
1984 510 0.000146184 510 100%
1985 492 0.000137849 492 100%
1986 487 0.00013691 487 100%
1987 490 0.000135899 490 100%
1988 489 0.000132339 489 100%
1989 538 0.000139942 538 100%
1990 533 0.000134852 533 100%
1991 507 0.000130158 507 100%
1992 465 0.000121054 465 100%
1993 417 0.000110602 417 100%
1994 449 0.000120775 449 100%
1995 419 0.000114414 419 100%
1996 415 0.000113786 415 100%
1997 387 0.000106737 387 100%
1998 418 0.000113642 418 100%
1999 415 0.000112348 415 100%
2000 415 0.000109791 415 100%
2001 384 0.000102581 384 100%
2002 404 0.000108071 404 100%
2003 374 0.000098361 374 100%
2004 382 0.000099976 382 100%
2005 356 0.000092592 356 100%
2006 300 0.000075831 300 100%
2007 321 0.000080297 321 100%
2008 320 0.000081411 320 100%
2009 285 0.000074604 285 100%
2010 278 0.000075222 278 100%
2011 247 0.000067527 247 100%
2012 261 0.000071363 261 100%
2013 236 0.000064734 236 100%
2014 286 0.000077164 286 100%
2015 258 0.000069713 258 100%
2016 259 0.000070597 259 100%
2017 262 0.000073262 262 100%
2018 248 0.000070537 248 100%
2019 207 0.000059638 207 100%
2020 186 0.000055679 186 100%
2021 190 0.000056081 190 100%
2022 170 0.000050249 170 100%
2023 163 0.000049227 163 100%
2024 152 0.000045666 152 100%

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