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How popular is “Bellah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bellah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bellah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bellah” 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
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 27 0.000006869 27 100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 37 0.000010012 37 100%
2011 36 0.000009842 36 100%
2012 42 0.000011484 42 100%
2013 33 0.000009052 33 100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 100%
2017 27 0.00000755 27 100%
2018 38 0.000010808 38 100%
2019 27 0.000007779 27 100%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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