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How popular is “Donesha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Donesha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Donesha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Donesha” 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
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 100%
1986 21 0.000005904 21 100%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 100%
1988 28 0.000007578 28 100%
1989 21 0.000005462 21 100%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 100%
1991 42 0.000010782 42 100%
1992 38 0.000009893 38 100%
1993 36 0.000009548 36 100%
1994 41 0.000011028 41 100%
1995 30 0.000008192 30 100%
1996 29 0.000007951 29 100%
1997 38 0.000010481 38 100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%

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