Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jak” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jak” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jak” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jak” 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
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 -100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 -100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 -100%
2008 33 0.000008396 33 -100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 -100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 -100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2012 24 0.000006562 24 -100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 -100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 -100%
2015 32 0.000008647 32 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 24 0.000006711 24 -100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 -100%
2021 32 0.000009445 32 -100%
2022 27 0.000007981 27 -100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 -100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 -100%

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