How popular is “Jerusalem” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Jerusalem” 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 “Jerusalem” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Jerusalem” 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
1981	6	0.000001734	6		100%
1988	5	0.000001353	5		100%
1990	7	0.000001771	7		100%
1991	5	0.000001284	5		100%
1992	5	0.000001302	5		100%
1993	7	0.000001857	7		100%
1994	5	0.000001345	5		100%
1998	5	0.000001359	5		100%
1999	16	0.000004332	11	5	38%
2000	7	0.000001852		7	-100%
2001	11	0.000002939	11		100%
2002	9	0.000002408	9		100%
2003	14	0.000003682	9	5	29%
2005	9	0.000002341	9		100%
2006	10	0.000002528	10		100%
2007	17	0.000004252	12	5	41%
2008	20	0.000005088	15	5	50%
2009	17	0.00000445	12	5	41%
2010	15	0.000004059	10	5	33%
2011	16	0.000004374	9	7	13%
2012	12	0.000003281	7	5	17%
2013	8	0.000002194	8		100%
2014	15	0.000004047	15		100%
2015	16	0.000004323	10	6	25%
2016	20	0.000005452	15	5	50%
2017	23	0.000006431	14	9	22%
2018	24	0.000006826	13	11	8%
2019	27	0.000007779	17	10	26%
2020	29	0.000008681	19	10	31%
2021	21	0.000006198	13	8	24%
2022	17	0.000005025	9	8	6%
2023	23	0.000006946	12	11	4%
2024	11	0.000003305	5	6	-9%

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