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How popular is “Jamilah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jamilah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jamilah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jamilah” 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
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 100%
1972 20 0.000006363 20 100%
1973 19 0.000006298 19 100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 100%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 100%
1976 51 0.000016808 51 100%
1977 79 0.00002487 73 6 85%
1978 56 0.000017644 51 5 82%
1979 68 0.000020439 63 5 85%
1980 37 0.000010742 37 100%
1981 40 0.000011563 40 100%
1982 49 0.000013968 49 100%
1983 42 0.000012127 42 100%
1984 44 0.000012612 44 100%
1985 62 0.000017371 62 100%
1986 54 0.000015181 54 100%
1987 49 0.00001359 49 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 51 0.000013266 51 100%
1990 45 0.000011385 45 100%
1991 46 0.000011809 46 100%
1992 59 0.000015359 59 100%
1993 70 0.000018566 70 100%
1994 59 0.00001587 59 100%
1995 53 0.000014472 53 100%
1996 42 0.000011516 42 100%
1997 53 0.000014618 53 100%
1998 43 0.00001169 43 100%
1999 62 0.000016785 62 100%
2000 43 0.000011376 43 100%
2001 57 0.000015227 57 100%
2002 43 0.000011503 43 100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 100%
2004 40 0.000010469 40 100%
2005 42 0.000010924 42 100%
2006 45 0.000011375 45 100%
2007 43 0.000010756 43 100%
2008 43 0.00001094 43 100%
2009 53 0.000013874 53 100%
2010 37 0.000010012 37 100%
2011 56 0.00001531 56 100%
2012 48 0.000013124 48 100%
2013 63 0.000017281 63 100%
2014 58 0.000015649 58 100%
2015 47 0.0000127 47 100%
2016 52 0.000014174 52 100%
2017 45 0.000012583 45 100%
2018 72 0.000020478 72 100%
2019 66 0.000019015 66 100%
2020 50 0.000014967 50 100%
2021 59 0.000017415 59 100%
2022 36 0.000010641 36 100%
2023 61 0.000018422 61 100%
2024 44 0.000013219 44 100%

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