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How popular is “Bassel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bassel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bassel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bassel” 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 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 -100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 -100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 -100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 -100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 -100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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