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How popular is “Amethyst” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amethyst” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Amethyst” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amethyst” 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 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 100%
1976 15 0.000004943 15 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 100%
1980 22 0.000006387 22 100%
1981 21 0.00000607 21 100%
1982 33 0.000009407 33 100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 100%
1984 37 0.000010606 37 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 37 0.000010402 37 100%
1987 30 0.00000832 30 100%
1988 51 0.000013802 51 100%
1989 64 0.000016647 64 100%
1990 76 0.000019228 76 100%
1991 76 0.000019511 76 100%
1992 92 0.00002395 92 100%
1993 88 0.00002334 88 100%
1994 87 0.000023402 87 100%
1995 88 0.00002403 88 100%
1996 89 0.000024402 89 100%
1997 103 0.000028408 103 100%
1998 96 0.0000261 96 100%
1999 102 0.000027613 102 100%
2000 95 0.000025133 95 100%
2001 95 0.000025378 95 100%
2002 98 0.000026215 98 100%
2003 105 0.000027615 105 100%
2004 97 0.000025387 97 100%
2005 77 0.000020027 77 100%
2006 88 0.000022244 88 100%
2007 70 0.00001751 70 100%
2008 47 0.000011957 47 100%
2009 62 0.00001623 62 100%
2010 62 0.000016776 62 100%
2011 62 0.00001695 62 100%
2012 75 0.000020507 75 100%
2013 55 0.000015086 55 100%
2014 95 0.000025632 95 100%
2015 128 0.000034586 128 100%
2016 160 0.000043612 160 100%
2017 177 0.000049494 177 100%
2018 168 0.000047783 168 100%
2019 189 0.000054452 189 100%
2020 184 0.00005508 184 100%
2021 215 0.00006346 215 100%
2022 240 0.00007094 235 5 96%
2023 212 0.000064025 206 6 94%
2024 173 0.000051975 173 100%

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