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How popular is “Barnabas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Barnabas” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Barnabas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Barnabas” 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
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 -100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 24 0.000006711 24 -100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 -100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 -100%
2023 19 0.000005738 19 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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