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How popular is “Faisal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Faisal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Faisal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Faisal” 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
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 -100%
1976 23 0.00000758 23 -100%
1977 25 0.00000787 25 -100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 -100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 -100%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 -100%
1981 28 0.000008094 28 -100%
1982 26 0.000007412 26 -100%
1983 25 0.000007218 25 -100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 -100%
1985 27 0.000007565 27 -100%
1986 33 0.000009277 33 -100%
1987 29 0.000008043 29 -100%
1988 33 0.000008931 33 -100%
1989 39 0.000010145 39 -100%
1990 29 0.000007337 29 -100%
1991 35 0.000008985 35 -100%
1992 40 0.000010413 40 -100%
1993 46 0.000012201 46 -100%
1994 39 0.00001049 39 -100%
1995 35 0.000009557 35 -100%
1996 37 0.000010145 37 -100%
1997 45 0.000012411 45 -100%
1998 43 0.00001169 43 -100%
1999 70 0.00001895 70 -100%
2000 51 0.000013492 51 -100%
2001 43 0.000011487 43 -100%
2002 39 0.000010433 39 -100%
2003 39 0.000010257 39 -100%
2004 44 0.000011516 44 -100%
2005 50 0.000013004 50 -100%
2006 41 0.000010364 41 -100%
2007 49 0.000012257 49 -100%
2008 36 0.000009159 36 -100%
2009 44 0.000011518 44 -100%
2010 50 0.000013529 50 -100%
2011 64 0.000017497 64 -100%
2012 74 0.000020233 74 -100%
2013 65 0.000017829 65 -100%
2014 82 0.000022124 82 -100%
2015 66 0.000017833 66 -100%
2016 60 0.000016355 60 -100%
2017 64 0.000017896 64 -100%
2018 46 0.000013083 46 -100%
2019 52 0.000014982 52 -100%
2020 52 0.000015566 52 -100%
2021 40 0.000011807 40 -100%
2022 51 0.000015075 51 -100%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 -100%
2024 47 0.00001412 47 -100%

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