Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kaoru” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kaoru” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kaoru” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kaoru” 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
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 15 0.000008186 5 10 -33%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 16 0.000007973 16 -100%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 24 0.000010607 10 14 -17%
1921 30 0.000012851 13 17 -13%
1922 22 0.000009611 11 11 0%
1923 17 0.000007383 7 10 -18%
1924 20 0.000008398 8 12 -20%
1925 17 0.000007286 6 11 -29%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1927 13 0.000005605 6 7 -8%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%

Explore other names

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