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How popular is “Islam” in the USA?

Number of people named “Islam” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Islam” by birth year

This chart shows how “Islam” 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
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 16 0.000004498 6 10 -25%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1989 18 0.000004682 11 7 22%
1990 29 0.000007337 7 22 -52%
1991 19 0.000004878 8 11 -16%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 -100%
1993 27 0.000007161 9 18 -33%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 -100%
1995 25 0.000006827 7 18 -44%
1996 22 0.000006032 5 17 -55%
1997 32 0.000008826 9 23 -44%
1998 26 0.000007069 9 17 -31%
1999 36 0.000009746 13 23 -28%
2000 27 0.000007143 8 19 -41%
2001 28 0.00000748 7 21 -50%
2002 16 0.00000428 6 10 -25%
2003 16 0.000004208 6 10 -25%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 21 0.000005343 6 15 -43%
2009 24 0.000006282 6 18 -50%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 21 0.000005741 5 16 -52%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 -100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 -100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 33 0.000009914 33 -100%

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