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How popular is “Hiroshi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hiroshi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hiroshi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hiroshi” 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
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 19 0.000016709 19 -100%
1914 20 0.000014121 20 -100%
1915 50 0.000027286 50 -100%
1916 45 0.000023263 45 -100%
1917 46 0.000022923 46 -100%
1918 42 0.000019345 42 -100%
1919 44 0.000020851 44 -100%
1920 62 0.000027402 62 -100%
1921 73 0.00003127 73 -100%
1922 61 0.000026647 61 -100%
1923 69 0.000029968 69 -100%
1924 81 0.000034011 81 -100%
1925 77 0.000033 77 -100%
1926 50 0.000021778 50 -100%
1927 56 0.000024145 56 -100%
1928 39 0.000017249 39 -100%
1929 43 0.000019615 43 -100%
1930 24 0.000010795 24 -100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 -100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 -100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 -100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 -100%
2011 34 0.000009295 34 -100%
2012 30 0.000008203 30 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 -100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 -100%
2016 11 0.000002998 11 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 -100%
2019 12 0.000003457 12 -100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 -100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 -100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 -100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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