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How popular is “Amit” in the USA?

Number of people named “Amit” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Amit” by birth year

This chart shows how “Amit” 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
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 -100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 -100%
1972 27 0.000008591 27 -100%
1973 28 0.000009281 28 -100%
1974 35 0.000011513 35 -100%
1975 50 0.00001656 50 -100%
1976 61 0.000020103 61 -100%
1977 69 0.000021722 69 -100%
1978 75 0.00002363 75 -100%
1979 88 0.00002645 88 -100%
1980 104 0.000030193 104 -100%
1981 120 0.000034688 120 -100%
1982 111 0.000031642 111 -100%
1983 135 0.00003898 135 -100%
1984 113 0.00003239 113 -100%
1985 121 0.000033902 7 114 -88%
1986 78 0.000021928 78 -100%
1987 97 0.000026902 97 -100%
1988 78 0.000021109 78 -100%
1989 67 0.000017428 67 -100%
1990 78 0.000019734 78 -100%
1991 81 0.000020794 8 73 -80%
1992 73 0.000019004 10 63 -73%
1993 66 0.000017505 9 57 -73%
1994 69 0.00001856 6 63 -83%
1995 59 0.000016111 6 53 -80%
1996 69 0.000018919 11 58 -68%
1997 55 0.000015169 6 49 -78%
1998 51 0.000013865 51 -100%
1999 50 0.000013536 7 43 -72%
2000 73 0.000019313 19 54 -48%
2001 69 0.000018432 12 57 -65%
2002 54 0.000014445 8 46 -70%
2003 52 0.000013676 8 44 -69%
2004 60 0.000015703 9 51 -70%
2005 52 0.000013525 52 -100%
2006 58 0.000014661 12 46 -59%
2007 58 0.000014508 7 51 -76%
2008 41 0.000010431 11 30 -46%
2009 41 0.000010732 5 36 -76%
2010 35 0.00000947 7 28 -60%
2011 52 0.000014216 9 43 -65%
2012 34 0.000009296 5 29 -71%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 -100%
2014 27 0.000007285 27 -100%
2015 21 0.000005674 5 16 -52%
2016 24 0.000006542 7 17 -42%
2017 29 0.000008109 8 21 -45%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 -100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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