How popular is “Jazz” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Jazz” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Jazz” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1983	5	0.000001444		5	-100%
1984	7	0.000002006		7	-100%
1985	8	0.000002241		8	-100%
1986	5	0.000001406		5	-100%
1987	20	0.000005547	6	14	-40%
1988	22	0.000005954	9	13	-18%
1989	36	0.000009364	13	23	-28%
1990	33	0.000008349	15	18	-9%
1991	54	0.000013863	19	35	-30%
1992	42	0.000010934	21	21	0%
1993	52	0.000013792	20	32	-23%
1994	63	0.000016946	26	37	-17%
1995	57	0.000015565	21	36	-26%
1996	35	0.000009596	17	18	-3%
1997	48	0.000013239	24	24	0%
1998	49	0.000013322	17	32	-31%
1999	44	0.000011912	19	25	-14%
2000	39	0.000010318	13	26	-33%
2001	31	0.000008281	16	15	3%
2002	28	0.00000749	13	15	-7%
2003	42	0.000011046	21	21	0%
2004	36	0.000009422	18	18	0%
2005	35	0.000009103	17	18	-3%
2006	46	0.000011627	19	27	-17%
2007	48	0.000012007	18	30	-25%
2008	41	0.000010431	11	30	-46%
2009	35	0.000009162	16	19	-9%
2010	36	0.000009741	15	21	-17%
2011	35	0.000009569	13	22	-26%
2012	37	0.000010117	16	21	-14%
2013	40	0.000010972	22	18	10%
2014	33	0.000008904	12	21	-27%
2015	29	0.000007836	14	15	-3%
2016	33	0.000008995	18	15	9%
2017	43	0.000012024	18	25	-16%
2018	39	0.000011092	19	20	-3%
2019	36	0.000010372	19	17	6%
2020	43	0.000012872	17	26	-21%
2021	37	0.000010921	9	28	-51%
2022	32	0.000009459	8	24	-50%
2023	41	0.000012382	12	29	-41%
2024	32	0.000009614	9	23	-44%

These names are alphabetically near to Jazz: