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How popular is “Anja” in the USA?

Number of people named “Anja” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Anja” by birth year

This chart shows how “Anja” 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
1962 7 0.000001735 7 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 41 0.000011309 41 100%
1966 20 0.000005754 20 100%
1967 25 0.000007364 25 100%
1968 29 0.000008584 29 100%
1969 23 0.000006618 23 100%
1970 27 0.000007486 27 100%
1971 39 0.000011362 39 100%
1972 23 0.000007318 23 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 100%
1978 17 0.000005356 17 100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 100%
1981 16 0.000004625 16 100%
1982 21 0.000005986 21 100%
1983 20 0.000005775 20 100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 25 100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 26 0.000007036 26 100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 100%
1990 44 0.000011132 44 100%
1991 40 0.000010269 40 100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 100%
1994 39 0.00001049 39 100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 100%
1996 55 0.00001508 55 100%
1997 30 0.000008274 30 100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 100%
1999 61 0.000016514 61 100%
2000 66 0.000017461 66 100%
2001 72 0.000019234 72 100%
2002 109 0.000029158 109 100%
2003 80 0.00002104 80 100%
2004 87 0.000022769 87 100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 100%
2006 122 0.000030838 122 100%
2007 99 0.000024764 99 100%
2008 73 0.000018572 73 100%
2009 80 0.000020941 80 100%
2010 84 0.000022729 84 100%
2011 81 0.000022145 81 100%
2012 87 0.000023788 87 100%
2013 62 0.000017006 62 100%
2014 49 0.00001322 49 100%
2015 73 0.000019725 73 100%
2016 72 0.000019625 72 100%
2017 64 0.000017896 64 100%
2018 45 0.000012799 45 100%
2019 57 0.000016422 57 100%
2020 53 0.000015866 53 100%
2021 46 0.000013578 46 100%
2022 50 0.000014779 50 100%
2023 51 0.000015402 51 100%
2024 48 0.000014421 48 100%

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