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How popular is “Jelani” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jelani” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jelani” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jelani” 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
1973 36 0.000011933 36 -100%
1974 53 0.000017434 53 -100%
1975 52 0.000017222 6 46 -77%
1976 55 0.000018126 55 -100%
1977 70 0.000022037 70 -100%
1978 61 0.000019219 61 -100%
1979 66 0.000019838 66 -100%
1980 77 0.000022354 6 71 -84%
1981 59 0.000017055 5 54 -83%
1982 61 0.000017389 61 -100%
1983 38 0.000010972 38 -100%
1984 64 0.000018345 6 58 -81%
1985 38 0.000010647 38 -100%
1986 38 0.000010683 38 -100%
1987 62 0.000017195 62 -100%
1988 70 0.000018944 6 64 -83%
1989 70 0.000018208 6 64 -83%
1990 87 0.000022012 5 82 -89%
1991 121 0.000031063 11 110 -82%
1992 108 0.000028116 12 96 -78%
1993 112 0.000029706 14 98 -75%
1994 113 0.000030396 11 102 -81%
1995 127 0.000034679 15 112 -76%
1996 138 0.000037837 25 113 -64%
1997 140 0.000038613 19 121 -73%
1998 173 0.000047034 22 151 -75%
1999 124 0.000033569 8 116 -87%
2000 156 0.000041271 13 143 -83%
2001 140 0.000037399 16 124 -77%
2002 148 0.00003959 15 133 -80%
2003 155 0.000040765 25 130 -68%
2004 140 0.00003664 12 128 -83%
2005 117 0.00003043 14 103 -76%
2006 127 0.000032102 13 114 -80%
2007 97 0.000024264 13 84 -73%
2008 112 0.000028494 13 99 -77%
2009 117 0.000030627 14 103 -76%
2010 109 0.000029493 9 100 -83%
2011 123 0.000033627 13 110 -79%
2012 100 0.000027342 13 87 -74%
2013 90 0.000024687 10 80 -78%
2014 79 0.000021315 10 69 -75%
2015 106 0.000028642 16 90 -70%
2016 122 0.000033254 23 99 -62%
2017 134 0.00003747 34 100 -49%
2018 114 0.000032424 30 84 -47%
2019 130 0.000037454 40 90 -38%
2020 130 0.000038915 41 89 -37%
2021 154 0.000045455 52 102 -32%
2022 213 0.000062959 84 129 -21%
2023 218 0.000065837 87 131 -20%
2024 181 0.000054379 87 94 -4%

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