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How popular is “Bama” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bama” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bama” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bama” 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
1880 6 0.000029779 6 100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 100%
1890 8 0.000026543 8 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 100%
1902 14 0.000036201 14 100%
1903 10 0.000026233 10 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 11 0.000011133 11 100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 100%
1918 13 0.000005988 13 100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%

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