How popular is “Alyx” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Alyx” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Alyx” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1978	7	0.000002206	7		100%
1981	5	0.000001445	5		100%
1982	5	0.000001425	5		100%
1983	6	0.000001732	6		100%
1984	10	0.000002866	10		100%
1985	6	0.000001681	6		100%
1986	16	0.000004498	16		100%
1987	22	0.000006102	22		100%
1988	29	0.000007848	29		100%
1989	37	0.000009624	32	5	73%
1990	33	0.000008349	33		100%
1991	49	0.000012579	49		100%
1992	50	0.000013017	45	5	80%
1993	84	0.00002228	78	6	86%
1994	54	0.000014525	45	9	67%
1995	72	0.000019661	64	8	78%
1996	63	0.000017274	55	8	75%
1997	61	0.000016824	52	9	70%
1998	48	0.00001305	41	7	71%
1999	34	0.000009204	34		100%
2000	37	0.000009789	31	6	68%
2001	42	0.00001122	32	10	52%
2002	29	0.000007758	29		100%
2003	25	0.000006575	25		100%
2004	37	0.000009684	27	10	46%
2005	30	0.000007803	25	5	67%
2006	42	0.000010616	37	5	76%
2007	39	0.000009756	31	8	59%
2008	38	0.000009668	30	8	58%
2009	36	0.000009424	36		100%
2010	33	0.000008929	28	5	70%
2011	30	0.000008202	30		100%
2012	31	0.000008476	25	6	61%
2013	23	0.000006309	23		100%
2014	28	0.000007555	22	6	57%
2015	28	0.000007566	28		100%
2016	23	0.000006269	23		100%
2017	27	0.00000755	21	6	56%
2018	35	0.000009955	28	7	60%
2019	32	0.000009219	24	8	50%
2020	42	0.000012573	31	11	48%
2021	27	0.000007969	22	5	63%
2022	25	0.00000739	17	8	36%
2023	14	0.000004228	14		100%
2024	20	0.000006009	14	6	40%

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