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How popular is “Barack” in the USA?

Number of people named “Barack” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Barack” by birth year

This chart shows how “Barack” 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
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 52 0.000013229 52 -100%
2009 71 0.000018586 71 -100%
2010 28 0.000007576 28 -100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 -100%
2019 12 0.000003457 12 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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