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How popular is “Amal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Amal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amal” 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
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 100%
1970 22 0.0000061 15 7 36%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 16 0.000005263 16 100%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 23 0.000007247 16 7 39%
1979 27 0.000008115 27 100%
1980 23 0.000006677 23 100%
1981 37 0.000010696 31 6 68%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 100%
1983 24 0.00000693 16 8 33%
1984 29 0.000008312 29 100%
1985 30 0.000008405 25 5 67%
1986 41 0.000011526 35 6 71%
1987 37 0.000010262 37 100%
1988 43 0.000011637 37 6 72%
1989 55 0.000014306 46 9 67%
1990 52 0.000013156 46 6 77%
1991 46 0.000011809 41 5 78%
1992 66 0.000017182 59 7 79%
1993 51 0.000013527 42 9 65%
1994 52 0.000013987 45 7 73%
1995 62 0.00001693 57 5 84%
1996 70 0.000019193 61 9 74%
1997 63 0.000017376 53 10 68%
1998 77 0.000020934 64 13 66%
1999 70 0.00001895 58 12 66%
2000 79 0.0000209 71 8 80%
2001 106 0.000028317 97 9 83%
2002 75 0.000020063 59 16 57%
2003 105 0.000027615 93 12 77%
2004 86 0.000022508 72 14 67%
2005 73 0.000018986 68 5 86%
2006 69 0.000017441 60 9 74%
2007 96 0.000024014 84 12 75%
2008 80 0.000020353 70 10 75%
2009 69 0.000018062 64 5 86%
2010 53 0.000014341 53 100%
2011 71 0.000019411 63 8 77%
2012 82 0.000022421 82 100%
2013 78 0.000021395 69 9 77%
2014 91 0.000024552 86 5 89%
2015 130 0.000035126 117 13 80%
2016 144 0.000039251 136 8 89%
2017 182 0.000050892 173 9 90%
2018 190 0.00005404 183 7 93%
2019 187 0.000053876 179 8 91%
2020 225 0.000067354 215 10 91%
2021 247 0.000072905 241 6 95%
2022 215 0.000063551 200 15 86%
2023 212 0.000064025 201 11 90%
2024 200 0.000060087 191 9 91%

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