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How popular is “Kane” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kane” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kane” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kane” 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
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 -100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 -100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1962 23 0.0000057 23 -100%
1963 21 0.000005305 21 -100%
1964 17 0.000004373 17 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 15 0.000004316 15 -100%
1967 14 0.000004124 14 -100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 -100%
1969 27 0.000007769 27 -100%
1970 35 0.000009705 35 -100%
1971 37 0.00001078 37 -100%
1972 30 0.000009545 30 -100%
1973 62 0.000020551 62 -100%
1974 60 0.000019737 60 -100%
1975 43 0.000014241 43 -100%
1976 45 0.00001483 45 -100%
1977 59 0.000018574 59 -100%
1978 48 0.000015123 48 -100%
1979 52 0.00001563 52 -100%
1980 47 0.000013645 47 -100%
1981 57 0.000016477 57 -100%
1982 65 0.000018529 5 60 -85%
1983 63 0.000018191 63 -100%
1984 47 0.000013472 47 -100%
1985 76 0.000021294 8 68 -79%
1986 88 0.000024739 88 -100%
1987 95 0.000026348 95 -100%
1988 108 0.000029228 108 -100%
1989 102 0.000026532 102 -100%
1990 116 0.000029349 5 111 -91%
1991 102 0.000026186 102 -100%
1992 118 0.000030719 118 -100%
1993 207 0.000054903 6 201 -94%
1994 276 0.00007424 276 -100%
1995 259 0.000070723 259 -100%
1996 253 0.000069368 253 -100%
1997 259 0.000071434 259 -100%
1998 350 0.000095155 350 -100%
1999 323 0.000087442 323 -100%
2000 333 0.000088097 333 -100%
2001 322 0.000086018 322 -100%
2002 304 0.000081321 304 -100%
2003 275 0.000072324 275 -100%
2004 276 0.000072234 276 -100%
2005 282 0.000073345 282 -100%
2006 311 0.000078611 311 -100%
2007 381 0.000095305 381 -100%
2008 654 0.000166384 654 -100%
2009 536 0.000140308 536 -100%
2010 449 0.000121491 449 -100%
2011 512 0.000139975 512 -100%
2012 477 0.000130422 477 -100%
2013 487 0.000133583 487 -100%
2014 595 0.000160534 595 -100%
2015 716 0.000193466 716 -100%
2016 794 0.000216426 794 -100%
2017 944 0.000263968 944 -100%
2018 1054 0.000299781 1054 -100%
2019 1010 0.000290988 7 1003 -99%
2020 965 0.000288872 965 -100%
2021 1001 0.000295459 1001 -100%
2022 916 0.000270755 5 911 -99%
2023 792 0.000239188 792 -100%
2024 731 0.000219618 731 -100%

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