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How popular is “Anaka” in the USA?

Number of people named “Anaka” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Anaka” by birth year

This chart shows how “Anaka” 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
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%

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