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How popular is “Kaitlen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kaitlen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kaitlen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kaitlen” 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
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 100%
1987 21 0.000005824 21 100%
1988 42 0.000011367 42 100%
1989 37 0.000009624 37 100%
1990 34 0.000008602 34 100%
1991 27 0.000006931 27 100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 100%
1993 25 0.000006631 25 100%
1994 35 0.000009415 35 100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 100%
1996 31 0.0000085 31 100%
1997 37 0.000010205 37 100%
1998 51 0.000013865 51 100%
1999 41 0.000011099 41 100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 100%
2001 30 0.000008014 30 100%
2002 31 0.000008293 31 100%
2003 23 0.000006049 23 100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 100%
2005 16 0.000004161 16 100%
2006 25 0.000006319 25 100%
2007 22 0.000005503 22 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%

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