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How popular is “Kansas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kansas” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kansas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kansas” 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
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 18 0.000005043 18 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 23 0.000006225 23 100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 100%
1990 20 0.00000506 20 100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 100%
1992 29 0.00000755 29 100%
1993 31 0.000008222 24 7 55%
1994 45 0.000012104 33 12 47%
1995 44 0.000012015 39 5 77%
1996 42 0.000011516 35 7 67%
1997 31 0.00000855 25 6 61%
1998 30 0.000008156 25 5 67%
1999 35 0.000009475 35 100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 100%
2001 32 0.000008548 32 100%
2002 50 0.000013375 50 100%
2003 38 0.000009994 38 100%
2004 39 0.000010207 39 100%
2005 42 0.000010924 36 6 71%
2006 47 0.00001188 47 100%
2007 36 0.000009005 36 100%
2008 32 0.000008141 32 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 100%
2011 31 0.000008475 26 5 68%
2012 25 0.000006836 25 100%
2013 30 0.000008229 30 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 28 0.000007566 28 100%
2016 38 0.000010358 32 6 68%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 100%
2018 22 0.000006257 22 100%
2019 30 0.000008643 25 5 67%
2020 25 0.000007484 25 100%
2021 35 0.000010331 27 8 54%
2022 21 0.000006207 15 6 43%
2023 27 0.000008154 18 9 33%
2024 20 0.000006009 14 6 40%

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