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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Basma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Basma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Basma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Basma” 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
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 100%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 100%
2016 27 0.00000736 27 100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 19 0.000005474 19 100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 100%
2024 18 0.000005408 18 100%

Explore other names

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