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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kale” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kale” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kale” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kale” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 -100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 -100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 -100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 -100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 -100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 -100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 -100%
1972 20 0.000006363 20 -100%
1973 32 0.000010607 32 -100%
1974 30 0.000009868 30 -100%
1975 36 0.000011923 36 -100%
1976 32 0.000010546 32 -100%
1977 36 0.000011333 36 -100%
1978 44 0.000013863 44 -100%
1979 42 0.000012624 5 37 -76%
1980 43 0.000012484 43 -100%
1981 51 0.000014743 51 -100%
1982 42 0.000011973 42 -100%
1983 58 0.000016747 9 49 -69%
1984 71 0.000020351 6 65 -83%
1985 100 0.000028018 8 92 -84%
1986 83 0.000023334 83 -100%
1987 125 0.000034668 6 119 -90%
1988 114 0.000030852 6 108 -89%
1989 99 0.000025751 6 93 -88%
1990 116 0.000029349 8 108 -86%
1991 91 0.000023362 91 -100%
1992 106 0.000027595 6 100 -89%
1993 117 0.000031032 8 109 -86%
1994 107 0.000028782 107 -100%
1995 94 0.000025668 94 -100%
1996 93 0.000025499 93 -100%
1997 110 0.000030339 7 103 -87%
1998 142 0.000038606 5 137 -93%
1999 134 0.000036276 6 128 -91%
2000 156 0.000041271 6 150 -92%
2001 164 0.000043811 6 158 -93%
2002 179 0.000047883 179 -100%
2003 189 0.000049707 5 184 -95%
2004 225 0.000058886 225 -100%
2005 274 0.000071264 10 264 -93%
2006 295 0.000074567 23 272 -84%
2007 400 0.000100058 18 382 -91%
2008 567 0.00014425 23 544 -92%
2009 536 0.000140308 15 521 -94%
2010 436 0.000117974 13 423 -94%
2011 429 0.000117284 5 424 -98%
2012 336 0.000091869 11 325 -93%
2013 264 0.000072415 5 259 -96%
2014 216 0.000058278 216 -100%
2015 177 0.000047826 177 -100%
2016 101 0.00002753 101 -100%
2017 62 0.000017337 62 -100%
2018 46 0.000013083 46 -100%
2019 26 0.000007491 26 -100%
2020 25 0.000007484 25 -100%
2021 28 0.000008265 28 -100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 -100%
2023 13 0.000003926 13 -100%
2024 18 0.000005408 18 -100%

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