Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Amir” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amir” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Amir” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amir” 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
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 -100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 24 0.000007069 24 -100%
1968 18 0.000005328 18 -100%
1969 29 0.000008345 29 -100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 -100%
1971 48 0.000013985 48 -100%
1972 42 0.000013363 42 -100%
1973 41 0.00001359 41 -100%
1974 56 0.000018421 56 -100%
1975 67 0.00002219 67 -100%
1976 69 0.00002274 69 -100%
1977 86 0.000027074 86 -100%
1978 104 0.000032768 104 -100%
1979 115 0.000034566 115 -100%
1980 130 0.000037741 130 -100%
1981 150 0.00004336 150 -100%
1982 137 0.000039054 137 -100%
1983 172 0.000049663 6 166 -93%
1984 209 0.000059907 5 204 -95%
1985 174 0.000048752 174 -100%
1986 209 0.000058756 209 -100%
1987 204 0.000056578 5 199 -95%
1988 215 0.000058186 215 -100%
1989 259 0.00006737 259 -100%
1990 275 0.000069577 275 -100%
1991 254 0.000065207 254 -100%
1992 258 0.000067165 5 253 -96%
1993 273 0.000072408 8 265 -94%
1994 337 0.000090649 7 330 -96%
1995 347 0.000094753 8 339 -95%
1996 366 0.000100351 7 359 -96%
1997 427 0.000117769 14 413 -93%
1998 530 0.000144092 14 516 -95%
1999 631 0.000170824 21 610 -93%
2000 611 0.000161644 8 603 -97%
2001 666 0.000177914 15 651 -95%
2002 766 0.000204906 24 742 -94%
2003 836 0.000219866 17 819 -96%
2004 870 0.000227694 27 843 -94%
2005 884 0.000229918 12 872 -97%
2006 1003 0.000253527 16 987 -97%
2007 1022 0.000255648 11 1011 -98%
2008 1150 0.000292571 24 1126 -96%
2009 1228 0.000321451 13 1215 -98%
2010 1234 0.000333898 16 1218 -97%
2011 1401 0.000383018 16 1385 -98%
2012 1486 0.000406303 20 1466 -97%
2013 1749 0.000479748 23 1726 -97%
2014 1836 0.000495363 17 1819 -98%
2015 2235 0.000603905 14 2221 -99%
2016 2463 0.000671355 17 2446 -99%
2017 2639 0.000737935 21 2618 -98%
2018 2618 0.000744618 12 2606 -99%
2019 2978 0.000857983 9 2969 -99%
2020 3196 0.000956721 16 3180 -99%
2021 3040 0.000897298 15 3025 -99%
2022 3361 0.000993457 12 3349 -99%
2023 3641 0.001099603 15 3626 -99%
2024 3631 0.001090881 6 3625 -100%

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