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How popular is “Kali” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kali” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kali” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kali” 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
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 36 0.000009982 30 6 67%
1971 71 0.000020686 61 10 72%
1972 59 0.000018772 47 12 59%
1973 45 0.000014916 34 11 51%
1974 85 0.000027961 65 20 53%
1975 74 0.000024508 62 12 68%
1976 59 0.000019444 45 14 53%
1977 74 0.000023296 61 13 65%
1978 83 0.000026151 68 15 64%
1979 72 0.000021641 53 19 47%
1980 103 0.000029903 91 12 77%
1981 141 0.000040759 129 12 83%
1982 166 0.000047321 166 100%
1983 213 0.000061501 206 7 93%
1984 311 0.000089144 306 5 97%
1985 338 0.000094701 329 9 95%
1986 367 0.000103175 359 8 96%
1987 357 0.000099012 346 11 94%
1988 355 0.000096075 348 7 96%
1989 472 0.000122774 472 100%
1990 564 0.000142695 558 6 98%
1991 572 0.000146845 560 12 96%
1992 639 0.000166351 630 9 97%
1993 610 0.000161792 595 15 95%
1994 668 0.000179683 650 18 95%
1995 763 0.000208347 756 7 98%
1996 861 0.000236072 850 11 97%
1997 813 0.00022423 800 13 97%
1998 694 0.000188679 686 8 98%
1999 776 0.000210078 763 13 97%
2000 678 0.00017937 660 18 95%
2001 611 0.000163221 592 19 94%
2002 508 0.000135891 495 13 95%
2003 512 0.000134655 494 18 93%
2004 545 0.000142636 527 18 93%
2005 562 0.00014617 554 8 97%
2006 560 0.00014155 549 11 96%
2007 682 0.000170599 668 14 96%
2008 630 0.000160278 618 12 96%
2009 616 0.000161249 602 14 95%
2010 560 0.000151526 545 15 95%
2011 609 0.000166494 602 7 98%
2012 765 0.000209167 748 17 96%
2013 893 0.000244948 872 21 95%
2014 1284 0.00034643 1260 24 96%
2015 1216 0.000328568 1186 30 95%
2016 1120 0.000305285 1086 34 94%
2017 1126 0.00031486 1089 37 93%
2018 1239 0.000352399 1207 32 95%
2019 1352 0.000389521 1311 41 94%
2020 1224 0.000366404 1181 43 93%
2021 1166 0.000344161 1123 43 93%
2022 1257 0.000371549 1228 29 95%
2023 1100 0.000332206 1071 29 95%
2024 1091 0.000327775 1066 25 95%

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