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How popular is “Josaphine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josaphine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josaphine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josaphine” 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
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%

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