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How popular is “Kalei” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kalei” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kalei” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kalei” 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
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 5 6 -9%
1984 14 0.000004013 7 7 0%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 100%
1987 16 0.000004438 10 6 25%
1988 19 0.000005142 14 5 47%
1989 26 0.000006763 21 5 62%
1990 21 0.000005313 21 100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 11 5 38%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 100%
1995 28 0.000007646 28 100%
1996 31 0.0000085 31 100%
1997 79 0.000021789 79 100%
1998 98 0.000026643 98 100%
1999 114 0.000030862 104 10 82%
2000 105 0.000027778 98 7 87%
2001 108 0.000028851 100 8 85%
2002 98 0.000026215 90 8 84%
2003 142 0.000037346 142 100%
2004 94 0.000024601 88 6 87%
2005 105 0.000027309 95 10 81%
2006 97 0.000024519 89 8 84%
2007 93 0.000023263 82 11 76%
2008 53 0.000013484 53 100%
2009 76 0.000019894 70 6 84%
2010 55 0.000014882 50 5 82%
2011 39 0.000010662 30 9 54%
2012 47 0.000012851 42 5 79%
2013 56 0.000015361 48 8 71%
2014 39 0.000010522 33 6 69%
2015 38 0.000010268 32 6 68%
2016 45 0.000012266 34 11 51%
2017 40 0.000011185 28 12 40%
2018 36 0.000010239 25 11 39%
2019 38 0.000010948 31 7 63%
2020 53 0.000015866 40 13 51%
2021 42 0.000012397 29 13 38%
2022 50 0.000014779 33 17 32%
2023 41 0.000012382 34 7 66%
2024 32 0.000009614 25 7 56%

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