Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Babak” in the USA?

Number of people named “Babak” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Babak” by birth year

This chart shows how “Babak” 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
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 -100%
1980 18 0.000005226 18 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 17 -100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 -100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%

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