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How popular is “Asha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Asha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Asha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Asha” 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
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 100%
1971 40 0.000011654 40 100%
1972 46 0.000014636 46 100%
1973 47 0.000015579 47 100%
1974 52 0.000017105 52 100%
1975 59 0.00001954 59 100%
1976 54 0.000017797 54 100%
1977 81 0.0000255 81 100%
1978 77 0.000024261 77 100%
1979 91 0.000027352 91 100%
1980 101 0.000029322 101 100%
1981 95 0.000027462 95 100%
1982 100 0.000028507 100 100%
1983 109 0.000031473 109 100%
1984 90 0.000025797 90 100%
1985 98 0.000027458 98 100%
1986 112 0.000031487 112 100%
1987 139 0.000038551 134 5 93%
1988 151 0.000040866 151 100%
1989 248 0.000064509 239 9 93%
1990 184 0.000046553 184 100%
1991 197 0.000050574 197 100%
1992 237 0.000061698 237 100%
1993 210 0.000055699 203 7 93%
1994 227 0.00006106 227 100%
1995 216 0.000058982 216 100%
1996 220 0.00006032 220 100%
1997 205 0.00005654 205 100%
1998 249 0.000067696 249 100%
1999 230 0.000062265 224 6 95%
2000 250 0.000066139 250 100%
2001 210 0.000056099 210 100%
2002 206 0.000055105 206 100%
2003 237 0.00006233 237 100%
2004 218 0.000057054 218 100%
2005 201 0.000052278 196 5 95%
2006 197 0.000049795 197 100%
2007 215 0.000053781 215 100%
2008 204 0.0000519 204 100%
2009 187 0.000048951 187 100%
2010 171 0.00004627 171 100%
2011 201 0.000054951 201 100%
2012 212 0.000057965 212 100%
2013 191 0.000052391 191 100%
2014 202 0.000054501 202 100%
2015 181 0.000048907 181 100%
2016 187 0.000050972 187 100%
2017 215 0.00006012 210 5 95%
2018 200 0.000056884 200 100%
2019 197 0.000056757 192 5 95%
2020 152 0.000045501 147 5 93%
2021 167 0.000049292 161 6 93%
2022 139 0.000041086 134 5 93%
2023 169 0.000051039 169 100%
2024 197 0.000059186 197 100%

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