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How popular is “Amara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amara” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Amara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amara” 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
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1970 17 0.000004714 17 100%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 30 0.000009017 30 100%
1980 31 0.000009 31 100%
1981 38 0.000010985 38 100%
1982 38 0.000010833 38 100%
1983 47 0.000013571 47 100%
1984 36 0.000010319 36 100%
1985 62 0.000017371 62 100%
1986 61 0.000017149 61 100%
1987 68 0.000018859 68 100%
1988 73 0.000019756 66 7 81%
1989 77 0.000020029 77 100%
1990 131 0.000033144 131 100%
1991 107 0.000027469 107 100%
1992 114 0.000029678 114 100%
1993 109 0.00002891 103 6 89%
1994 115 0.000030933 115 100%
1995 139 0.000037956 139 100%
1996 151 0.000041402 146 5 93%
1997 169 0.000046611 169 100%
1998 190 0.000051656 179 11 88%
1999 203 0.000054956 197 6 94%
2000 294 0.00007778 287 7 95%
2001 271 0.000072394 263 8 94%
2002 309 0.000082658 297 12 92%
2003 413 0.000108618 406 7 97%
2004 464 0.000121437 456 8 97%
2005 512 0.000133165 501 11 96%
2006 517 0.000130681 511 6 98%
2007 535 0.000133828 522 13 95%
2008 542 0.00013789 534 8 97%
2009 522 0.000136643 516 6 98%
2010 454 0.000122844 447 7 97%
2011 499 0.000136421 491 8 97%
2012 521 0.000142452 514 7 97%
2013 508 0.000139343 497 11 96%
2014 617 0.00016647 607 10 97%
2015 706 0.000190764 691 15 96%
2016 1096 0.000298744 1085 11 98%
2017 1510 0.000422236 1500 10 99%
2018 1602 0.000455645 1587 15 98%
2019 2007 0.000578231 1996 11 99%
2020 1926 0.000576547 1918 8 99%
2021 1931 0.000569961 1920 11 99%
2022 2059 0.000608607 2046 13 99%
2023 2297 0.000693707 2280 17 99%
2024 2300 0.000691002 2288 12 99%

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