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How popular is “Karla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karla” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karla” 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
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 100%
1932 28 0.000013262 28 100%
1933 32 0.000016004 32 100%
1934 46 0.000022149 46 100%
1935 38 0.000018183 38 100%
1936 73 0.000035137 73 100%
1937 81 0.000038016 81 100%
1938 87 0.000039321 87 100%
1939 122 0.000055368 122 100%
1940 137 0.000059496 137 100%
1941 148 0.000060745 148 100%
1942 187 0.000068453 187 100%
1943 218 0.000077235 218 100%
1944 217 0.000080667 217 100%
1945 319 0.000120245 319 100%
1946 427 0.000133633 427 100%
1947 504 0.00013991 504 100%
1948 465 0.000134684 465 100%
1949 480 0.000137742 480 100%
1950 592 0.000168981 592 100%
1951 722 0.000195997 722 100%
1952 829 0.000218272 829 100%
1953 941 0.000244184 941 100%
1954 1135 0.000285125 1135 100%
1955 1205 0.000300119 1205 100%
1956 1391 0.000337373 1391 100%
1957 1529 0.000363862 1529 100%
1958 1484 0.000358983 1484 100%
1959 1640 0.000394421 1635 5 99%
1960 1660 0.000399633 1655 5 99%
1961 1880 0.000453854 1871 9 99%
1962 1946 0.000482236 1946 100%
1963 2008 0.000507301 2008 100%
1964 2066 0.000531433 2060 6 99%
1965 1814 0.000500352 1804 10 99%
1966 1691 0.000486527 1686 5 99%
1967 1646 0.000484845 1646 100%
1968 1504 0.000445179 1504 100%
1969 1541 0.000443412 1536 5 99%
1970 1639 0.000454455 1634 5 99%
1971 1425 0.000415167 1417 8 99%
1972 1121 0.000356666 1121 100%
1973 1117 0.000370249 1111 6 99%
1974 1071 0.000352303 1065 6 99%
1975 1013 0.000335498 1013 100%
1976 985 0.000324622 978 7 99%
1977 1005 0.000316387 1000 5 99%
1978 948 0.000298689 948 100%
1979 1091 0.000327923 1080 11 98%
1980 1034 0.000300188 1026 8 98%
1981 993 0.000287046 986 7 99%
1982 964 0.000274803 957 7 99%
1983 946 0.000273147 940 6 99%
1984 941 0.000269724 934 7 99%
1985 914 0.000256086 902 12 97%
1986 923 0.000259483 915 8 98%
1987 877 0.000243232 868 9 98%
1988 873 0.000236262 866 7 98%
1989 984 0.000255954 966 18 96%
1990 1015 0.000256801 1002 13 97%
1991 1099 0.000282137 1088 11 98%
1992 1166 0.000303545 1157 9 98%
1993 1207 0.000320135 1196 11 98%
1994 1266 0.000340537 1259 7 99%
1995 1190 0.000324945 1182 8 99%
1996 1440 0.000394824 1435 5 99%
1997 1478 0.00040764 1470 8 99%
1998 1482 0.000402914 1472 10 99%
1999 1615 0.000437211 1609 6 99%
2000 1592 0.000421175 1587 5 99%
2001 1699 0.000453867 1699 100%
2002 1849 0.000494611 1840 9 99%
2003 1784 0.000469187 1779 5 99%
2004 1757 0.000459837 1749 8 99%
2005 1716 0.000446312 1716 100%
2006 1662 0.000420101 1656 6 99%
2007 1581 0.000395479 1581 100%
2008 1421 0.000361516 1421 100%
2009 1122 0.000293704 1116 6 99%
2010 989 0.000267605 989 100%
2011 910 0.000248784 910 100%
2012 761 0.000208073 761 100%
2013 647 0.000177471 647 100%
2014 620 0.000167279 620 100%
2015 616 0.000166445 616 100%
2016 554 0.000151007 554 100%
2017 553 0.000154634 553 100%
2018 476 0.000135385 476 100%
2019 427 0.000123022 427 100%
2020 420 0.000125727 420 100%
2021 411 0.000121312 411 100%
2022 425 0.000125623 425 100%
2023 398 0.000120198 398 100%
2024 385 0.000115668 385 100%

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