Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jamel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jamel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jamel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jamel” 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
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 5 8 -23%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 14 0.000003601 5 9 -29%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 15 0.000004316 5 10 -33%
1967 22 0.00000648 9 13 -18%
1968 25 0.0000074 5 20 -60%
1969 60 0.000017265 13 47 -57%
1970 51 0.000014141 14 37 -45%
1971 88 0.000025638 10 78 -77%
1972 109 0.00003468 16 93 -71%
1973 149 0.000049389 13 136 -83%
1974 159 0.000052303 8 151 -90%
1975 200 0.000066238 15 185 -85%
1976 245 0.000080743 14 231 -89%
1977 246 0.000077444 11 235 -91%
1978 308 0.000097042 14 294 -91%
1979 290 0.000087166 17 273 -88%
1980 294 0.000085353 18 276 -88%
1981 246 0.000071111 8 238 -93%
1982 297 0.000084665 14 283 -91%
1983 331 0.000095573 12 319 -93%
1984 299 0.000085704 12 287 -92%
1985 316 0.000088537 13 303 -92%
1986 344 0.000096709 16 328 -91%
1987 343 0.000095129 12 331 -93%
1988 373 0.000100946 13 360 -93%
1989 352 0.000091561 5 347 -97%
1990 370 0.000093612 11 359 -94%
1991 358 0.000091906 13 345 -93%
1992 314 0.000081744 7 307 -96%
1993 295 0.000078244 8 287 -95%
1994 306 0.00008231 5 301 -97%
1995 236 0.000064443 9 227 -92%
1996 252 0.000069094 5 247 -96%
1997 208 0.000057367 7 201 -93%
1998 214 0.000058181 214 -100%
1999 237 0.00006416 237 -100%
2000 201 0.000053176 201 -100%
2001 191 0.000051023 191 -100%
2002 218 0.000058315 218 -100%
2003 205 0.000053914 5 200 -95%
2004 182 0.000047632 182 -100%
2005 207 0.000053838 207 -100%
2006 194 0.000049037 194 -100%
2007 205 0.00005128 205 -100%
2008 182 0.000046303 182 -100%
2009 205 0.000053662 205 -100%
2010 178 0.000048164 178 -100%
2011 149 0.000040735 149 -100%
2012 141 0.000038552 141 -100%
2013 139 0.000038127 139 -100%
2014 103 0.00002779 103 -100%
2015 121 0.000032695 121 -100%
2016 104 0.000028348 104 -100%
2017 105 0.000029361 105 -100%
2018 88 0.000025029 88 -100%
2019 77 0.000022184 77 -100%
2020 82 0.000024547 82 -100%
2021 83 0.000024499 83 -100%
2022 64 0.000018917 64 -100%
2023 55 0.00001661 55 -100%
2024 45 0.00001352 45 -100%

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