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How popular is “Ciaran” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ciaran” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ciaran” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ciaran” 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
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1971 12 0.000003496 7 5 17%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 -100%
1992 17 0.000004426 17 -100%
1993 26 0.000006896 26 -100%
1994 38 0.000010222 38 -100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 -100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 -100%
1997 48 0.000013239 7 41 -71%
1998 48 0.00001305 48 -100%
1999 45 0.000012182 45 -100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 -100%
2001 49 0.00001309 49 -100%
2002 47 0.000012573 47 -100%
2003 66 0.000017358 5 61 -85%
2004 70 0.00001832 5 65 -86%
2005 60 0.000015605 60 -100%
2006 63 0.000015924 63 -100%
2007 70 0.00001751 70 -100%
2008 85 0.000021625 6 79 -86%
2009 74 0.000019371 74 -100%
2010 62 0.000016776 62 -100%
2011 78 0.000021324 78 -100%
2012 61 0.000016679 61 -100%
2013 81 0.000022218 81 -100%
2014 83 0.000022394 83 -100%
2015 74 0.000019995 74 -100%
2016 67 0.000018263 67 -100%
2017 60 0.000016778 60 -100%
2018 61 0.00001735 61 -100%
2019 61 0.000017575 61 -100%
2020 69 0.000020655 69 -100%
2021 71 0.000020957 71 -100%
2022 83 0.000024533 83 -100%
2023 82 0.000024764 82 -100%
2024 92 0.00002764 92 -100%

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