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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Essa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Essa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Essa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Essa” 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 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 -100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 -100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 11 0.000002893 11 -100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 20 0.000005088 5 15 -50%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2012 31 0.000008476 10 21 -35%
2013 29 0.000007955 5 24 -66%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 -100%
2015 40 0.000010808 7 33 -65%
2016 35 0.00000954 35 -100%
2017 60 0.000016778 15 45 -50%
2018 47 0.000013368 12 35 -49%
2019 64 0.000018439 10 54 -69%
2020 45 0.000013471 11 34 -51%
2021 48 0.000014168 13 35 -46%
2022 71 0.000020986 14 57 -61%
2023 63 0.000019026 15 48 -52%
2024 45 0.00001352 7 38 -69%

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