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How popular is “Kamau” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kamau” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kamau” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kamau” 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
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 -100%
1973 27 0.00000895 27 -100%
1974 26 0.000008553 26 -100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 -100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 -100%
1977 29 0.00000913 29 -100%
1978 28 0.000008822 28 -100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 -100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 -100%
1981 21 0.00000607 21 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 -100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 -100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 -100%
1992 28 0.000007289 28 -100%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 -100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 -100%
1995 34 0.000009284 34 -100%
1996 27 0.000007403 27 -100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 -100%
1998 34 0.000009244 34 -100%
1999 22 0.000005956 22 -100%
2000 29 0.000007672 29 -100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 -100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 -100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 -100%
2004 19 0.000004973 19 -100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 -100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 -100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 -100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 -100%

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