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How popular is “Kani” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kani” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kani” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kani” 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
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 19 0.000005209 7 12 -26%
1997 25 0.000006895 8 17 -36%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 30 0.000008122 9 21 -40%
2000 34 0.000008995 7 27 -59%
2001 34 0.000009083 9 25 -47%
2002 26 0.000006955 9 17 -31%
2003 36 0.000009468 10 26 -44%
2004 43 0.000011254 12 31 -44%
2005 42 0.000010924 7 35 -67%
2006 57 0.000014408 11 46 -61%
2007 31 0.000007754 8 23 -48%
2008 43 0.00001094 11 32 -49%
2009 39 0.000010209 7 32 -64%
2010 43 0.000011635 14 29 -35%
2011 34 0.000009295 8 26 -53%
2012 27 0.000007382 9 18 -33%
2013 21 0.00000576 8 13 -24%
2014 20 0.000005396 6 14 -40%
2015 26 0.000007025 9 17 -31%
2016 20 0.000005452 6 14 -40%
2017 19 0.000005313 10 9 5%
2018 30 0.000008533 5 25 -67%
2019 27 0.000007779 9 18 -33%
2020 34 0.000010178 16 18 -6%
2021 27 0.000007969 9 18 -33%
2022 42 0.000012415 18 24 -14%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 7 15 -36%

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