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How popular is “Kanai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kanai” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kanai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kanai” 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
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
2006 17 0.000004297 5 12 -41%
2007 15 0.000003752 5 10 -33%
2008 23 0.000005851 9 14 -22%
2009 23 0.000006021 10 13 -13%
2010 15 0.000004059 9 6 20%
2011 20 0.000005468 7 13 -30%
2012 31 0.000008476 8 23 -48%
2013 23 0.000006309 9 14 -22%
2014 25 0.000006745 7 18 -44%
2015 24 0.000006485 6 18 -50%
2016 21 0.000005724 8 13 -24%
2017 26 0.00000727 11 15 -15%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 -100%
2019 25 0.000007203 5 20 -60%
2020 24 0.000007184 9 15 -25%
2021 41 0.000012102 17 24 -17%
2022 43 0.00001271 14 29 -35%
2023 39 0.000011778 9 30 -54%
2024 34 0.000010215 8 26 -53%

Explore other names

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