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How popular is “Altair” in the USA?

Number of people named “Altair” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Altair” by birth year

This chart shows how “Altair” 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
2008 15 0.000003816 10 5 33%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 8 10 -11%
2011 18 0.000004921 9 9 0%
2012 33 0.000009023 16 17 -3%
2013 27 0.000007406 13 14 -4%
2014 32 0.000008634 18 14 13%
2015 31 0.000008376 13 18 -16%
2016 26 0.000007087 13 13 0%
2017 26 0.00000727 9 17 -31%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 -100%
2019 27 0.000007779 14 13 4%
2020 17 0.000005089 8 9 -6%
2021 24 0.000007084 5 19 -58%
2022 19 0.000005616 8 11 -16%
2023 20 0.00000604 5 15 -50%
2024 33 0.000009914 7 26 -58%

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