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How popular is “Joab” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joab” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Joab” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joab” 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%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 -100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 -100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 -100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 -100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 -100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 -100%
2006 20 0.000005055 20 -100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 -100%
2008 24 0.000006106 24 -100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 35 0.0000096 35 -100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 -100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 -100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 -100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 25 0.000007484 25 -100%
2021 42 0.000012397 42 -100%
2022 41 0.000012119 41 -100%
2023 40 0.00001208 40 -100%
2024 45 0.00001352 45 -100%

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