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How popular is “Bassam” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bassam” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bassam” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bassam” 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
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1993 11 0.000002918 11 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 14 0.000003839 14 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 -100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 -100%
2015 28 0.000007566 28 -100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 -100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 -100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 -100%
2019 18 0.000005186 18 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 25 0.000007379 25 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 -100%
2024 25 0.000007511 25 -100%

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