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How popular is “Ismail” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ismail” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Ismail” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ismail” 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
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 -100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 -100%
1977 19 0.000005981 19 -100%
1978 24 0.000007562 24 -100%
1979 29 0.000008717 29 -100%
1980 30 0.00000871 30 -100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 -100%
1982 25 0.000007127 25 -100%
1983 31 0.000008951 31 -100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 -100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 -100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 -100%
1987 24 0.000006656 24 -100%
1988 28 0.000007578 28 -100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 -100%
1990 42 0.000010626 42 -100%
1991 56 0.000014376 56 -100%
1992 35 0.000009112 35 -100%
1993 57 0.000015118 57 -100%
1994 51 0.000013718 51 -100%
1995 52 0.000014199 52 -100%
1996 53 0.000014532 53 -100%
1997 64 0.000017652 64 -100%
1998 69 0.000018759 69 -100%
1999 65 0.000017597 65 -100%
2000 68 0.00001799 68 -100%
2001 80 0.000021371 80 -100%
2002 85 0.000022738 85 -100%
2003 85 0.000022355 85 -100%
2004 80 0.000020937 80 -100%
2005 69 0.000017946 69 -100%
2006 103 0.000026035 103 -100%
2007 101 0.000025265 101 -100%
2008 85 0.000021625 85 -100%
2009 104 0.000027224 104 -100%
2010 94 0.000025435 94 -100%
2011 119 0.000032533 119 -100%
2012 116 0.000031717 116 -100%
2013 135 0.00003703 135 -100%
2014 136 0.000036694 136 -100%
2015 158 0.000042692 158 -100%
2016 171 0.000046611 171 -100%
2017 148 0.000041385 148 -100%
2018 158 0.000044939 158 -100%
2019 114 0.000032844 114 -100%
2020 130 0.000038915 130 -100%
2021 121 0.000035715 121 -100%
2022 122 0.000036061 122 -100%
2023 132 0.000039865 132 -100%
2024 163 0.000048971 163 -100%

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