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How popular is “Jihad” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jihad” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jihad” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jihad” 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
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 -100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 -100%
1979 27 0.000008115 27 -100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 -100%
1981 25 0.000007227 25 -100%
1982 40 0.000011403 40 -100%
1983 28 0.000008085 28 -100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 -100%
1985 28 0.000007845 28 -100%
1986 28 0.000007872 28 -100%
1987 35 0.000009707 35 -100%
1988 36 0.000009743 36 -100%
1989 43 0.000011185 43 -100%
1990 40 0.00001012 40 -100%
1991 63 0.000016173 63 -100%
1992 66 0.000017182 66 -100%
1993 76 0.000020158 5 71 -87%
1994 87 0.000023402 87 -100%
1995 73 0.000019934 73 -100%
1996 73 0.000020015 73 -100%
1997 67 0.000018479 67 -100%
1998 64 0.0000174 64 -100%
1999 76 0.000020575 76 -100%
2000 96 0.000025397 96 -100%
2001 93 0.000024844 93 -100%
2002 65 0.000017388 65 -100%
2003 51 0.000013413 51 -100%
2004 41 0.00001073 41 -100%
2005 39 0.000010143 39 -100%
2006 49 0.000012386 49 -100%
2007 39 0.000009756 39 -100%
2008 40 0.000010176 40 -100%
2009 44 0.000011518 44 -100%
2010 31 0.000008388 31 -100%
2011 36 0.000009842 36 -100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 -100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 -100%
2014 28 0.000007555 28 -100%
2015 28 0.000007566 28 -100%
2016 19 0.000005179 19 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 -100%
2018 26 0.000007395 26 -100%
2019 25 0.000007203 25 -100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 -100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 -100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 -100%
2023 29 0.000008758 29 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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