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How popular is “Jossiah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jossiah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jossiah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jossiah” 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
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 -100%
2015 12 0.000003242 12 -100%
2016 28 0.000007632 28 -100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 -100%
2018 31 0.000008817 31 -100%
2019 23 0.000006626 23 -100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 -100%
2021 18 0.000005313 18 -100%
2022 19 0.000005616 19 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 -100%

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