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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Karin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karin” 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
1907 6 0.000012892 6 100%
1912 6 0.000006072 6 100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 100%
1915 13 0.000007094 13 100%
1916 11 0.000005686 11 100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 100%
1920 9 0.000003978 9 100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 100%
1928 16 0.000007077 16 100%
1929 15 0.000006843 15 100%
1930 21 0.000009445 21 100%
1931 22 0.000010454 22 100%
1932 32 0.000015157 32 100%
1933 44 0.000022006 44 100%
1934 40 0.00001926 40 100%
1935 41 0.000019618 41 100%
1936 55 0.000026473 55 100%
1937 92 0.000043179 92 100%
1938 101 0.000045648 101 100%
1939 109 0.000049468 109 100%
1940 129 0.000056022 129 100%
1941 185 0.000075931 185 100%
1942 415 0.000151913 415 100%
1943 236 0.000083612 236 100%
1944 205 0.000076206 205 100%
1945 175 0.000065965 175 100%
1946 275 0.000086064 275 100%
1947 384 0.000106598 384 100%
1948 461 0.000133526 461 100%
1949 347 0.000099576 347 100%
1950 360 0.000102759 360 100%
1951 468 0.000127045 468 100%
1952 477 0.000125592 477 100%
1953 482 0.000125076 482 100%
1954 571 0.000143442 571 100%
1955 606 0.000150931 606 100%
1956 725 0.000175841 725 100%
1957 690 0.000164202 690 100%
1958 669 0.000161832 669 100%
1959 721 0.000173401 721 100%
1960 738 0.000177668 738 100%
1961 734 0.000177196 734 100%
1962 826 0.00020469 826 100%
1963 898 0.000226871 898 100%
1964 886 0.000227904 886 100%
1965 918 0.00025321 918 100%
1966 855 0.000245997 855 100%
1967 949 0.000279537 949 100%
1968 978 0.000289485 971 7 99%
1969 1014 0.000291771 1009 5 99%
1970 1051 0.000291417 1051 100%
1971 881 0.000256675 876 5 99%
1972 669 0.000212854 664 5 99%
1973 654 0.00021678 654 100%
1974 578 0.000190132 573 5 98%
1975 503 0.00016659 503 100%
1976 462 0.000152259 462 100%
1977 482 0.00015174 474 8 97%
1978 425 0.000133906 420 5 98%
1979 337 0.000101292 331 6 96%
1980 337 0.000097837 337 100%
1981 312 0.00009019 312 100%
1982 296 0.000084379 296 100%
1983 245 0.000070741 240 5 96%
1984 272 0.000077965 272 100%
1985 196 0.000054916 196 100%
1986 216 0.000060724 211 5 95%
1987 195 0.000054082 195 100%
1988 186 0.000050338 179 7 92%
1989 181 0.000047081 181 100%
1990 162 0.000040987 157 5 94%
1991 148 0.000037995 148 100%
1992 112 0.000029157 112 100%
1993 146 0.000038724 141 5 93%
1994 121 0.000032547 121 100%
1995 93 0.000025395 87 6 87%
1996 86 0.00002358 86 100%
1997 90 0.000024822 90 100%
1998 87 0.000023653 81 6 86%
1999 89 0.000024094 83 6 87%
2000 73 0.000019313 73 100%
2001 71 0.000018967 71 100%
2002 68 0.00001819 59 9 74%
2003 59 0.000015517 54 5 83%
2004 55 0.000014394 49 6 78%
2005 51 0.000013265 46 5 80%
2006 63 0.000015924 54 9 71%
2007 50 0.000012507 41 9 64%
2008 46 0.000011703 46 100%
2009 43 0.000011256 43 100%
2010 39 0.000010553 39 100%
2011 35 0.000009569 29 6 66%
2012 31 0.000008476 31 100%
2013 37 0.000010149 37 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 29 0.000007836 29 100%
2016 26 0.000007087 26 100%
2017 30 0.000008389 30 100%
2018 25 0.000007111 25 100%
2019 24 0.000006915 17 7 42%
2020 20 0.000005987 13 7 30%
2021 19 0.000005608 13 6 37%
2022 30 0.000008868 15 15 0%
2023 21 0.000006342 11 10 5%
2024 21 0.000006309 13 8 24%

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