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How popular is “Karan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karan” 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
1936 12 0.000005776 12 100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 100%
1939 26 0.0000118 26 100%
1940 31 0.000013463 31 100%
1941 56 0.000022984 56 100%
1942 84 0.000030749 84 100%
1943 91 0.00003224 91 100%
1944 73 0.000027137 73 100%
1945 59 0.00002224 59 100%
1946 95 0.000029731 95 100%
1947 98 0.000027205 98 100%
1948 87 0.000025199 87 100%
1949 95 0.000027261 95 100%
1950 106 0.000030257 106 100%
1951 98 0.000026603 98 100%
1952 110 0.000028963 110 100%
1953 109 0.000028285 109 100%
1954 114 0.000028638 114 100%
1955 156 0.000038854 156 100%
1956 170 0.000041232 170 100%
1957 164 0.000039028 164 100%
1958 137 0.000033141 137 100%
1959 152 0.000036556 152 100%
1960 109 0.000026241 109 100%
1961 112 0.000027038 112 100%
1962 115 0.000028498 115 100%
1963 85 0.000021474 85 100%
1964 101 0.00002598 101 100%
1965 91 0.0000251 91 100%
1966 81 0.000023305 81 100%
1967 56 0.000016495 56 100%
1968 49 0.000014504 49 100%
1969 50 0.000014387 50 100%
1970 45 0.000012477 45 100%
1971 52 0.00001515 52 100%
1972 31 0.000009863 31 100%
1973 28 0.000009281 23 5 64%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 100%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 19 0.000005492 13 6 37%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 19 0.000005486 11 8 16%
1984 28 0.000008026 15 13 7%
1985 17 0.000004763 10 7 18%
1986 22 0.000006185 5 17 -55%
1987 28 0.000007766 11 17 -21%
1988 30 0.000008119 9 21 -40%
1989 32 0.000008324 10 22 -38%
1990 37 0.000009361 37 -100%
1991 40 0.000010269 6 34 -70%
1992 51 0.000013277 12 39 -53%
1993 36 0.000009548 36 -100%
1994 68 0.000018291 7 61 -79%
1995 88 0.00002403 10 78 -77%
1996 73 0.000020015 7 66 -81%
1997 58 0.000015997 5 53 -83%
1998 52 0.000014137 52 -100%
1999 86 0.000023282 13 73 -70%
2000 55 0.000014551 5 50 -82%
2001 77 0.00002057 77 -100%
2002 60 0.00001605 60 -100%
2003 74 0.000019462 6 68 -84%
2004 82 0.000021461 9 73 -78%
2005 63 0.000016386 63 -100%
2006 41 0.000010364 41 -100%
2007 38 0.000009506 38 -100%
2008 35 0.000008904 35 -100%
2009 47 0.000012303 47 -100%
2010 33 0.000008929 33 -100%
2011 28 0.000007655 28 -100%
2012 34 0.000009296 34 -100%
2013 30 0.000008229 30 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 -100%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 -100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 -100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 -100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 -100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 -100%

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