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How popular is “Josyah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Josyah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Josyah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Josyah” 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 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 -100%
2007 19 0.000004753 19 -100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 -100%
2009 32 0.000008377 32 -100%
2010 28 0.000007576 28 -100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 -100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 -100%
2013 27 0.000007406 27 -100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 -100%
2015 27 0.000007295 27 -100%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 -100%
2017 33 0.000009228 33 -100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 -100%
2019 29 0.000008355 29 -100%
2020 40 0.000011974 40 -100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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