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How popular is “Cara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cara” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cara” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 100%
1885 12 0.000049823 12 100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1891 11 0.000038371 11 100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 100%
1895 12 0.000034186 12 100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 100%
1897 11 0.000031704 11 100%
1898 16 0.000041945 16 100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 100%
1900 17 0.000037756 17 100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 100%
1904 11 0.000027262 11 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 100%
1907 16 0.00003438 16 100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 100%
1910 19 0.000032165 19 100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 100%
1912 16 0.000016193 16 100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 100%
1914 19 0.000013415 19 100%
1915 30 0.000016372 30 100%
1916 27 0.000013958 27 100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 100%
1918 33 0.0000152 33 100%
1919 19 0.000009004 19 100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 100%
1921 21 0.000008995 21 100%
1922 34 0.000014853 34 100%
1923 33 0.000014332 33 100%
1924 30 0.000012597 30 100%
1925 27 0.000011572 27 100%
1926 43 0.000018729 43 100%
1927 25 0.000010779 25 100%
1928 20 0.000008846 20 100%
1929 30 0.000013685 30 100%
1930 28 0.000012594 28 100%
1931 15 0.000007128 15 100%
1932 28 0.000013262 28 100%
1933 22 0.000011003 22 100%
1934 37 0.000017816 37 100%
1935 27 0.000012919 27 100%
1936 39 0.000018772 39 100%
1937 45 0.00002112 45 100%
1938 38 0.000017175 38 100%
1939 26 0.0000118 26 100%
1940 36 0.000015634 36 100%
1941 44 0.000018059 44 100%
1942 48 0.000017571 48 100%
1943 54 0.000019132 54 100%
1944 41 0.000015241 41 100%
1945 46 0.000017339 46 100%
1946 47 0.000014709 47 100%
1947 53 0.000014713 53 100%
1948 51 0.000014772 51 100%
1949 72 0.000020661 72 100%
1950 70 0.000019981 70 100%
1951 84 0.000022803 84 100%
1952 87 0.000022907 87 100%
1953 101 0.000026209 101 100%
1954 124 0.00003115 124 100%
1955 154 0.000038355 154 100%
1956 172 0.000041717 172 100%
1957 165 0.000039266 165 100%
1958 134 0.000032415 134 100%
1959 200 0.0000481 200 100%
1960 234 0.000056334 234 100%
1961 340 0.00008208 340 100%
1962 448 0.000111018 448 100%
1963 682 0.000172301 682 100%
1964 663 0.000170542 663 100%
1965 987 0.000272242 987 100%
1966 677 0.000194783 677 100%
1967 604 0.000177914 604 100%
1968 508 0.000150366 508 100%
1969 636 0.000183005 636 100%
1970 716 0.00019853 716 100%
1971 755 0.000219966 755 100%
1972 722 0.000229717 722 100%
1973 847 0.000280753 847 100%
1974 1074 0.00035329 1074 100%
1975 1192 0.000394781 1192 100%
1976 1108 0.000365158 1103 5 99%
1977 1416 0.000445774 1411 5 99%
1978 1346 0.000424088 1346 100%
1979 1254 0.000376916 1247 7 99%
1980 1276 0.000370445 1276 100%
1981 1266 0.000365962 1261 5 99%
1982 1334 0.000380278 1328 6 99%
1983 1394 0.000402502 1394 100%
1984 1440 0.000412755 1440 100%
1985 1472 0.000412428 1465 7 99%
1986 1338 0.000376151 1338 100%
1987 1240 0.000343908 1232 8 99%
1988 1273 0.000344516 1268 5 99%
1989 1284 0.000333988 1275 9 99%
1990 1212 0.000306643 1212 100%
1991 1259 0.000323213 1259 100%
1992 1130 0.000294173 1125 5 99%
1993 1105 0.000293082 1105 100%
1994 1026 0.000275981 1026 100%
1995 900 0.000245757 900 100%
1996 862 0.000236346 862 100%
1997 819 0.000225884 819 100%
1998 807 0.0002194 807 100%
1999 728 0.000197083 728 100%
2000 732 0.000193656 732 100%
2001 604 0.000161351 604 100%
2002 584 0.000156221 584 100%
2003 568 0.000149383 568 100%
2004 570 0.000149179 570 100%
2005 522 0.000135766 522 100%
2006 531 0.00013422 531 100%
2007 579 0.000144834 579 100%
2008 681 0.000173253 681 100%
2009 663 0.000173552 663 100%
2010 460 0.000124468 460 100%
2011 473 0.000129313 473 100%
2012 404 0.000110462 404 100%
2013 451 0.000123708 451 100%
2014 421 0.000113588 421 100%
2015 389 0.000105109 389 100%
2016 352 0.000095947 352 100%
2017 318 0.000088921 318 100%
2018 310 0.000088171 310 100%
2019 252 0.000072603 252 100%
2020 288 0.000086213 288 100%
2021 248 0.000073201 248 100%
2022 208 0.000061481 208 100%
2023 182 0.000054965 182 100%
2024 178 0.000053478 178 100%

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