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How popular is “Ismael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ismael” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ismael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ismael” 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
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 15 0.000013191 15 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 20 0.000009966 20 -100%
1918 13 0.000005988 13 -100%
1919 20 0.000009478 20 -100%
1920 23 0.000010165 23 -100%
1921 28 0.000011994 28 -100%
1922 27 0.000011795 27 -100%
1923 37 0.00001607 37 -100%
1924 28 0.000011757 28 -100%
1925 41 0.000017572 41 -100%
1926 43 0.000018729 43 -100%
1927 43 0.00001854 43 -100%
1928 51 0.000022557 51 -100%
1929 58 0.000026458 58 -100%
1930 75 0.000033734 75 -100%
1931 76 0.000036115 76 -100%
1932 57 0.000026998 57 -100%
1933 68 0.000034009 68 -100%
1934 40 0.00001926 40 -100%
1935 52 0.000024882 52 -100%
1936 39 0.000018772 39 -100%
1937 49 0.000022997 49 -100%
1938 58 0.000026214 58 -100%
1939 54 0.000024507 54 -100%
1940 40 0.000017371 40 -100%
1941 59 0.000024216 59 -100%
1942 65 0.000023794 65 -100%
1943 49 0.00001736 49 -100%
1944 79 0.000029367 79 -100%
1945 79 0.000029779 79 -100%
1946 96 0.000030044 96 -100%
1947 104 0.00002887 104 -100%
1948 116 0.000033599 116 -100%
1949 129 0.000037018 129 -100%
1950 131 0.000037393 131 -100%
1951 138 0.000037462 138 -100%
1952 145 0.000038178 145 -100%
1953 165 0.000042817 165 -100%
1954 161 0.000040445 161 -100%
1955 160 0.00003985 160 -100%
1956 202 0.000048993 202 -100%
1957 196 0.000046643 196 -100%
1958 191 0.000046203 191 -100%
1959 195 0.000046898 195 -100%
1960 209 0.000050315 209 -100%
1961 180 0.000043454 180 -100%
1962 233 0.000057739 233 -100%
1963 213 0.000053812 213 -100%
1964 219 0.000056333 219 -100%
1965 200 0.000055166 200 -100%
1966 233 0.000067038 233 -100%
1967 220 0.000064803 220 -100%
1968 255 0.000075479 255 -100%
1969 247 0.000071073 247 -100%
1970 301 0.00008346 301 -100%
1971 289 0.000084199 289 -100%
1972 280 0.000089087 280 -100%
1973 279 0.000092479 279 -100%
1974 365 0.000120066 365 -100%
1975 306 0.000101345 306 -100%
1976 354 0.000116666 5 349 -97%
1977 326 0.000102629 326 -100%
1978 344 0.000108385 6 338 -97%
1979 419 0.000125939 419 -100%
1980 386 0.000112063 386 -100%
1981 406 0.000117362 406 -100%
1982 441 0.000125714 6 435 -97%
1983 431 0.000124446 7 424 -97%
1984 380 0.000108921 380 -100%
1985 415 0.000116275 415 -100%
1986 445 0.000125103 445 -100%
1987 434 0.000120368 434 -100%
1988 475 0.000128551 475 -100%
1989 462 0.000120173 6 456 -97%
1990 557 0.000140924 557 -100%
1991 615 0.000157884 615 -100%
1992 600 0.000156198 600 -100%
1993 643 0.000170544 6 637 -98%
1994 650 0.000174841 8 642 -98%
1995 716 0.000195513 716 -100%
1996 779 0.000213589 7 772 -98%
1997 658 0.00018148 658 -100%
1998 744 0.000202272 744 -100%
1999 791 0.000214139 6 785 -98%
2000 808 0.000213762 5 803 -99%
2001 866 0.000231341 866 -100%
2002 809 0.000216409 809 -100%
2003 871 0.000229071 871 -100%
2004 911 0.000238424 6 905 -99%
2005 903 0.00023486 5 898 -99%
2006 988 0.000249735 988 -100%
2007 978 0.000244642 978 -100%
2008 935 0.000237873 935 -100%
2009 863 0.000225906 863 -100%
2010 824 0.000222959 824 -100%
2011 789 0.000215704 789 -100%
2012 776 0.000212174 776 -100%
2013 744 0.000204078 744 -100%
2014 807 0.000217733 807 -100%
2015 772 0.000208597 772 -100%
2016 792 0.00021588 792 -100%
2017 814 0.000227616 814 -100%
2018 918 0.0002611 918 -100%
2019 875 0.000252094 875 -100%
2020 905 0.000270911 905 -100%
2021 926 0.000273322 926 -100%
2022 1076 0.000318048 1076 -100%
2023 1425 0.000430358 1425 -100%
2024 1532 0.000460267 1532 -100%

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