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How popular is “Kao” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kao” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kao” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kao” 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
1980 32 0.00000929 9 23 -44%
1981 54 0.00001561 14 40 -48%
1982 34 0.000009692 6 28 -65%
1983 44 0.000012705 14 30 -36%
1984 30 0.000008599 8 22 -47%
1985 27 0.000007565 13 14 -4%
1986 34 0.000009558 16 18 -6%
1987 30 0.00000832 8 22 -47%
1988 33 0.000008931 13 20 -21%
1989 46 0.000011965 21 25 -9%
1990 36 0.000009108 17 19 -6%
1991 42 0.000010782 24 18 14%
1992 45 0.000011715 13 32 -42%
1993 30 0.000007957 13 17 -13%
1994 33 0.000008877 15 18 -9%
1995 30 0.000008192 15 15 0%
1996 15 0.000004113 5 10 -33%
1997 15 0.000004137 7 8 -7%
1998 15 0.000004078 7 8 -7%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 -100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%

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