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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Amar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Amar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amar” 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
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 22 0.000007292 22 -100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 -100%
1975 35 0.000011592 35 -100%
1976 36 0.000011864 36 -100%
1977 26 0.000008185 26 -100%
1978 48 0.000015123 48 -100%
1979 34 0.000010219 34 -100%
1980 54 0.000015677 54 -100%
1981 52 0.000015032 52 -100%
1982 39 0.000011118 39 -100%
1983 52 0.000015014 52 -100%
1984 50 0.000014332 50 -100%
1985 51 0.000014289 51 -100%
1986 55 0.000015462 55 -100%
1987 49 0.00001359 49 -100%
1988 58 0.000015697 58 -100%
1989 39 0.000010145 39 -100%
1990 65 0.000016445 10 55 -69%
1991 44 0.000011296 44 -100%
1992 47 0.000012236 5 42 -79%
1993 37 0.000009814 5 32 -73%
1994 53 0.000014256 53 -100%
1995 47 0.000012834 47 -100%
1996 53 0.000014532 53 -100%
1997 59 0.000016272 59 -100%
1998 97 0.000026372 6 91 -88%
1999 88 0.000023823 9 79 -80%
2000 100 0.000026456 12 88 -76%
2001 120 0.000032057 10 110 -83%
2002 115 0.000030763 115 -100%
2003 148 0.000038924 9 139 -88%
2004 142 0.000037164 7 135 -90%
2005 158 0.000041094 11 147 -86%
2006 144 0.000036399 6 138 -92%
2007 147 0.000036771 7 140 -90%
2008 140 0.000035617 5 135 -93%
2009 131 0.000034292 6 125 -91%
2010 132 0.000035717 5 127 -92%
2011 145 0.000039641 7 138 -90%
2012 156 0.000042654 12 144 -85%
2013 163 0.000044711 18 145 -78%
2014 171 0.000046137 16 155 -81%
2015 171 0.000046205 13 158 -85%
2016 154 0.000041977 15 139 -81%
2017 180 0.000050333 24 156 -73%
2018 156 0.00004437 13 143 -83%
2019 180 0.000051859 13 167 -86%
2020 156 0.000046699 13 143 -83%
2021 186 0.0000549 15 171 -84%
2022 155 0.000045815 22 133 -72%
2023 195 0.000058891 18 177 -82%
2024 176 0.000052877 16 160 -82%

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