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How popular is “Elyjah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Elyjah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Elyjah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Elyjah” 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
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 -100%
1996 22 0.000006032 22 -100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 -100%
1998 36 0.000009787 36 -100%
1999 31 0.000008392 31 -100%
2000 36 0.000009524 36 -100%
2001 44 0.000011754 44 -100%
2002 56 0.00001498 56 -100%
2003 68 0.000017884 68 -100%
2004 81 0.000021199 81 -100%
2005 74 0.000019247 74 -100%
2006 80 0.000020221 80 -100%
2007 74 0.000018511 74 -100%
2008 100 0.000025441 100 -100%
2009 82 0.000021465 82 -100%
2010 89 0.000024082 89 -100%
2011 84 0.000022965 84 -100%
2012 124 0.000033904 124 -100%
2013 69 0.000018927 69 -100%
2014 80 0.000021584 80 -100%
2015 73 0.000019725 73 -100%
2016 65 0.000017717 65 -100%
2017 67 0.000018735 67 -100%
2018 67 0.000019056 67 -100%
2019 58 0.00001671 58 -100%
2020 71 0.000021254 71 -100%
2021 58 0.00001712 58 -100%
2022 61 0.000018031 61 -100%
2023 67 0.000020234 67 -100%
2024 48 0.000014421 48 -100%

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