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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Karah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karah” 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
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 51 0.000016055 51 100%
1978 33 0.000010397 33 100%
1979 36 0.000010821 36 100%
1980 37 0.000010742 37 100%
1981 34 0.000009828 34 100%
1982 41 0.000011688 41 100%
1983 60 0.000017324 60 100%
1984 61 0.000017485 61 100%
1985 46 0.000012888 46 100%
1986 64 0.000017992 64 100%
1987 61 0.000016918 61 100%
1988 80 0.000021651 80 100%
1989 78 0.000020289 78 100%
1990 86 0.000021759 86 100%
1991 76 0.000019511 76 100%
1992 97 0.000025252 97 100%
1993 94 0.000024932 94 100%
1994 83 0.000022326 83 100%
1995 84 0.000022937 84 100%
1996 86 0.00002358 86 100%
1997 117 0.000032269 117 100%
1998 91 0.00002474 91 100%
1999 114 0.000030862 114 100%
2000 131 0.000034657 131 100%
2001 96 0.000025645 96 100%
2002 100 0.00002675 100 100%
2003 121 0.000031823 121 100%
2004 106 0.000027742 106 100%
2005 99 0.000025749 99 100%
2006 122 0.000030838 122 100%
2007 90 0.000022513 90 100%
2008 98 0.000024932 98 100%
2009 80 0.000020941 80 100%
2010 82 0.000022188 82 100%
2011 64 0.000017497 64 100%
2012 55 0.000015038 55 100%
2013 62 0.000017006 62 100%
2014 58 0.000015649 58 100%
2015 44 0.000011889 44 100%
2016 45 0.000012266 45 100%
2017 37 0.000010346 37 100%
2018 26 0.000007395 26 100%
2019 28 0.000008067 28 100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 100%

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