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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Boaz” in the USA?

Number of people named “Boaz” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Boaz” by birth year

This chart shows how “Boaz” 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
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 -100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 15 0.000004096 15 -100%
1996 24 0.00000658 24 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 22 0.000005981 22 -100%
1999 25 0.000006768 25 -100%
2000 30 0.000007937 30 -100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 -100%
2002 38 0.000010165 38 -100%
2003 34 0.000008942 34 -100%
2004 49 0.000012824 49 -100%
2005 54 0.000014045 54 -100%
2006 58 0.000014661 58 -100%
2007 54 0.000013508 54 -100%
2008 54 0.000013738 54 -100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 -100%
2010 80 0.000021647 80 -100%
2011 81 0.000022145 81 -100%
2012 93 0.000025428 93 -100%
2013 126 0.000034562 126 -100%
2014 117 0.000031567 117 -100%
2015 135 0.000036477 135 -100%
2016 163 0.00004443 163 -100%
2017 150 0.000041944 150 -100%
2018 179 0.000050912 179 -100%
2019 191 0.000055028 191 -100%
2020 177 0.000052985 177 -100%
2021 217 0.000064051 217 -100%
2022 220 0.000065028 220 -100%
2023 237 0.000071575 237 -100%
2024 219 0.000065795 219 -100%

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