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How popular is “Karey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karey” 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
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 5 5 0%
1947 13 0.000003609 5 8 -23%
1948 14 0.000004055 8 6 14%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 10 6 25%
1951 22 0.000005972 14 8 27%
1952 20 0.000005266 7 13 -30%
1953 17 0.000004411 7 10 -18%
1954 25 0.00000628 18 7 44%
1955 35 0.000008717 21 14 20%
1956 33 0.000008004 22 11 33%
1957 38 0.000009043 27 11 42%
1958 40 0.000009676 33 7 65%
1959 51 0.000012266 36 15 41%
1960 54 0.000013 32 22 19%
1961 55 0.000013278 35 20 27%
1962 57 0.000014125 38 19 33%
1963 48 0.000012127 32 16 33%
1964 46 0.000011832 38 8 65%
1965 46 0.000012688 35 11 52%
1966 60 0.000017263 44 16 47%
1967 77 0.000022681 62 15 61%
1968 93 0.000027528 82 11 76%
1969 74 0.000021293 56 18 51%
1970 94 0.000026064 80 14 70%
1971 89 0.00002593 80 9 80%
1972 95 0.000030226 90 5 89%
1973 99 0.000032815 88 11 78%
1974 109 0.000035855 92 17 69%
1975 133 0.000044049 119 14 79%
1976 123 0.000040537 109 14 77%
1977 122 0.000038407 115 7 89%
1978 80 0.000025206 71 9 77%
1979 66 0.000019838 58 8 76%
1980 77 0.000022354 70 7 82%
1981 73 0.000021102 57 16 56%
1982 71 0.00002024 63 8 77%
1983 43 0.000012416 43 100%
1984 44 0.000012612 35 9 59%
1985 31 0.000008686 21 10 35%
1986 45 0.000012651 29 16 29%
1987 32 0.000008875 20 12 25%
1988 22 0.000005954 17 5 55%
1989 35 0.000009104 24 11 37%
1990 39 0.000009867 26 13 33%
1991 27 0.000006931 15 12 11%
1992 37 0.000009632 26 11 41%
1993 28 0.000007427 18 10 29%
1994 30 0.00000807 22 8 47%
1995 17 0.000004642 10 7 18%
1996 34 0.000009322 28 6 65%
1997 14 0.000003861 9 5 29%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 9 5 29%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 6 6 0%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%

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