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How popular is “Hera” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hera” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hera” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hera” 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
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 8 0.000002175 8 100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 32 0.000008778 32 100%
2014 33 0.000008904 33 100%
2015 40 0.000010808 40 100%
2016 38 0.000010358 38 100%
2017 37 0.000010346 37 100%
2018 44 0.000012515 44 100%
2019 53 0.00001527 53 100%
2020 51 0.000015267 51 100%
2021 59 0.000017415 59 100%
2022 57 0.000016848 57 100%
2023 57 0.000017214 57 100%
2024 61 0.000018327 61 100%

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