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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Anu” in the USA?

Number of people named “Anu” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Anu” by birth year

This chart shows how “Anu” 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
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 8 5 23%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 12 5 41%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2018 14 0.000003982 7 7 0%
2019 17 0.000004898 7 10 -18%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 19 0.000005608 7 12 -26%
2022 16 0.000004729 7 9 -13%
2023 25 0.00000755 7 18 -44%
2024 17 0.000005107 8 9 -6%

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