How popular is “Kanesha” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kanesha” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Kanesha” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1972	6	0.000001909	6	100%
1973	5	0.000001657	5	100%
1974	13	0.000004276	13	100%
1975	18	0.000005961	18	100%
1976	17	0.000005603	17	100%
1977	31	0.000009759	31	100%
1978	27	0.000008507	27	100%
1979	28	0.000008416	28	100%
1980	40	0.000011613	40	100%
1981	45	0.000013008	45	100%
1982	50	0.000014253	50	100%
1983	47	0.000013571	47	100%
1984	58	0.000016625	58	100%
1985	38	0.000010647	38	100%
1986	41	0.000011526	41	100%
1987	49	0.00001359	49	100%
1988	36	0.000009743	36	100%
1989	83	0.00002159	83	100%
1990	198	0.000050095	198	100%
1991	165	0.000042359	165	100%
1992	108	0.000028116	108	100%
1993	90	0.000023871	90	100%
1994	101	0.000027168	101	100%
1995	84	0.000022937	84	100%
1996	75	0.000020564	75	100%
1997	59	0.000016272	59	100%
1998	46	0.000012506	46	100%
1999	27	0.000007309	27	100%
2000	30	0.000007937	30	100%
2001	27	0.000007213	27	100%
2002	22	0.000005885	22	100%
2003	16	0.000004208	16	100%
2004	13	0.000003402	13	100%
2005	12	0.000003121	12	100%
2006	10	0.000002528	10	100%
2007	12	0.000003002	12	100%
2008	10	0.000002544	10	100%
2009	8	0.000002094	8	100%
2012	7	0.000001914	7	100%

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