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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Isis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Isis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Isis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Isis” 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
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 100%
1974 24 0.000007895 24 100%
1975 61 0.000020203 61 100%
1976 124 0.000040866 124 100%
1977 87 0.000027389 87 100%
1978 72 0.000022685 72 100%
1979 56 0.000016832 56 100%
1980 51 0.000014806 51 100%
1981 47 0.000013586 47 100%
1982 63 0.000017959 63 100%
1983 63 0.000018191 63 100%
1984 49 0.000014045 49 100%
1985 63 0.000017651 63 100%
1986 57 0.000016024 57 100%
1987 56 0.000015531 56 100%
1988 64 0.000017321 64 100%
1989 85 0.00002211 85 100%
1990 88 0.000022265 88 100%
1991 150 0.000038508 150 100%
1992 132 0.000034364 132 100%
1993 182 0.000048272 182 100%
1994 187 0.000050301 187 100%
1995 201 0.000054886 201 100%
1996 218 0.000059772 218 100%
1997 303 0.000083569 303 100%
1998 376 0.000102224 376 100%
1999 414 0.000112078 414 100%
2000 470 0.000124342 470 100%
2001 491 0.000131165 485 6 98%
2002 472 0.000126261 472 100%
2003 467 0.00012282 467 100%
2004 532 0.000139233 532 100%
2005 561 0.00014591 561 100%
2006 525 0.000132703 519 6 98%
2007 553 0.00013833 553 100%
2008 504 0.000128223 504 100%
2009 495 0.000129575 495 100%
2010 471 0.000127444 471 100%
2011 449 0.000122752 449 100%
2012 467 0.000127687 467 100%
2013 501 0.000137423 501 100%
2014 401 0.000108192 401 100%
2015 117 0.000031614 117 100%
2016 53 0.000014447 53 100%
2017 52 0.000014541 52 100%
2018 53 0.000015074 53 100%
2019 68 0.000019591 68 100%
2020 71 0.000021254 71 100%
2021 113 0.000033354 113 100%
2022 114 0.000033697 114 100%
2023 151 0.000045603 151 100%
2024 228 0.000068499 228 100%

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