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How popular is “China” in the USA?

Number of people named “China” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “China” by birth year

This chart shows how “China” 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
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 15 0.000003768 15 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 17 0.000004689 17 100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1970 20 0.000005546 20 100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 100%
1973 25 0.000008287 25 100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 100%
1975 29 0.000009605 29 100%
1976 37 0.000012194 37 100%
1977 46 0.000014481 46 100%
1978 45 0.000014178 45 100%
1979 47 0.000014127 47 100%
1980 65 0.000018871 65 100%
1981 61 0.000017633 61 100%
1982 52 0.000014823 52 100%
1983 53 0.000015303 53 100%
1984 51 0.000014618 51 100%
1985 44 0.000012328 44 100%
1986 66 0.000018555 66 100%
1987 87 0.000024129 87 100%
1988 109 0.000029499 109 100%
1989 148 0.000038497 148 100%
1990 163 0.00004124 163 100%
1991 192 0.000049291 192 100%
1992 245 0.000063781 245 100%
1993 222 0.000058882 222 100%
1994 200 0.000053797 195 5 95%
1995 186 0.00005079 186 100%
1996 190 0.000052095 190 100%
1997 229 0.000063159 224 5 96%
1998 194 0.000052743 194 100%
1999 156 0.000042232 156 100%
2000 151 0.000039948 151 100%
2001 92 0.000024577 92 100%
2002 64 0.00001712 64 100%
2003 54 0.000014202 54 100%
2004 53 0.000013871 53 100%
2005 47 0.000012224 47 100%
2006 51 0.000012891 51 100%
2007 42 0.000010506 42 100%
2008 44 0.000011194 44 100%
2009 39 0.000010209 39 100%
2010 52 0.00001407 52 100%
2011 57 0.000015583 57 100%
2012 46 0.000012577 46 100%
2013 44 0.000012069 44 100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 100%
2016 33 0.000008995 33 100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 100%
2018 15 0.000004266 15 100%
2019 18 0.000005186 18 100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to China:

  1. Chimereze
  2. Chimezie
  3. Chimira
  4. Chimnora
  5. Chin
  6. China (this page)
  7. Chinara
  8. Chinasa
  9. Chinaza
  10. Chinda
  11. Chinedu