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How popular is “Kama” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kama” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kama” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kama” 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
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 25 0.000007194 25 100%
1970 39 0.000010814 39 100%
1971 39 0.000011362 39 100%
1972 37 0.000011772 37 100%
1973 23 0.000007624 23 100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 100%
1975 32 0.000010598 32 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 100%
1979 27 0.000008115 27 100%
1980 18 0.000005226 18 100%
1981 21 0.00000607 21 100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 23 0.000006253 23 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%

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