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How popular is “Kala” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kala” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kala” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kala” 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
1943 7 0.00000248 7 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 100%
1955 19 0.000004732 19 100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 100%
1958 23 0.000005564 23 100%
1959 21 0.000005051 21 100%
1960 30 0.000007222 30 100%
1961 31 0.000007484 31 100%
1962 30 0.000007434 30 100%
1963 34 0.00000859 34 100%
1964 30 0.000007717 30 100%
1965 25 0.000006896 25 100%
1966 27 0.000007768 27 100%
1967 30 0.000008837 30 100%
1968 24 0.000007104 24 100%
1969 37 0.000010646 37 100%
1970 38 0.000010536 38 100%
1971 50 0.000014567 50 100%
1972 34 0.000010818 27 7 59%
1973 41 0.00001359 35 6 71%
1974 48 0.000015789 41 7 71%
1975 42 0.00001391 36 6 71%
1976 53 0.000017467 44 9 66%
1977 58 0.000018259 51 7 76%
1978 62 0.000019535 54 8 74%
1979 49 0.000014728 49 100%
1980 53 0.000015387 53 100%
1981 54 0.00001561 54 100%
1982 217 0.000061859 217 100%
1983 277 0.000079981 277 100%
1984 205 0.00005876 199 6 94%
1985 223 0.000062481 223 100%
1986 273 0.000076748 273 100%
1987 386 0.000107055 381 5 97%
1988 462 0.000125032 462 100%
1989 533 0.000138642 525 8 97%
1990 438 0.000110817 438 100%
1991 426 0.000109364 426 100%
1992 354 0.000092157 354 100%
1993 351 0.000093097 351 100%
1994 315 0.000084731 315 100%
1995 308 0.000084103 308 100%
1996 234 0.000064159 234 100%
1997 209 0.000057643 209 100%
1998 190 0.000051656 190 100%
1999 171 0.000046293 171 100%
2000 159 0.000042065 153 6 92%
2001 136 0.000036331 136 100%
2002 118 0.000031565 118 100%
2003 80 0.00002104 80 100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 100%
2005 61 0.000015865 61 100%
2006 47 0.00001188 47 100%
2007 33 0.000008255 33 100%
2008 61 0.000015519 55 6 80%
2009 31 0.000008115 26 5 68%
2010 35 0.00000947 29 6 66%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 23 0.000006289 23 100%
2013 22 0.000006035 22 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 100%
2017 22 0.000006152 22 100%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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