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How popular is “Farah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Farah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Farah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Farah” 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
1960 19 0.000004574 19 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 100%
1969 30 0.000008632 30 100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 100%
1972 36 0.000011454 36 100%
1973 35 0.000011601 35 100%
1974 47 0.000015461 47 100%
1975 78 0.000025833 78 100%
1976 173 0.000057015 173 100%
1977 173 0.000054463 173 100%
1978 66 0.000020795 66 100%
1979 62 0.000018635 62 100%
1980 72 0.000020903 72 100%
1981 79 0.000022836 79 100%
1982 72 0.000020525 72 100%
1983 60 0.000017324 60 100%
1984 83 0.000023791 83 100%
1985 77 0.000021574 77 100%
1986 77 0.000021647 77 100%
1987 92 0.000025516 92 100%
1988 97 0.000026251 92 5 90%
1989 121 0.000031474 114 7 88%
1990 92 0.000023277 92 100%
1991 89 0.000022848 89 100%
1992 70 0.000018223 70 100%
1993 101 0.000026788 101 100%
1994 74 0.000019905 74 100%
1995 77 0.000021026 77 100%
1996 85 0.000023306 85 100%
1997 84 0.000023168 84 100%
1998 94 0.000025556 86 8 83%
1999 110 0.000029779 105 5 91%
2000 93 0.000024604 88 5 89%
2001 92 0.000024577 92 100%
2002 130 0.000034775 130 100%
2003 134 0.000035242 129 5 93%
2004 123 0.000032191 118 5 92%
2005 116 0.00003017 111 5 91%
2006 137 0.000034629 130 7 90%
2007 126 0.000031518 118 8 87%
2008 140 0.000035617 140 100%
2009 135 0.000035339 129 6 91%
2010 156 0.000042211 151 5 94%
2011 164 0.000044836 164 100%
2012 183 0.000050036 178 5 95%
2013 166 0.000045534 166 100%
2014 161 0.000043439 152 9 89%
2015 177 0.000047826 172 5 94%
2016 157 0.000042794 157 100%
2017 151 0.000042224 143 8 89%
2018 177 0.000050343 177 100%
2019 120 0.000034573 120 100%
2020 153 0.0000458 153 100%
2021 159 0.000046931 159 100%
2022 157 0.000046407 157 100%
2023 173 0.000052247 173 100%
2024 167 0.000050173 167 100%

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