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How popular is “Kanaya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kanaya” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kanaya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kanaya” 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
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 100%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 100%
2008 14 0.000003562 14 100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%

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