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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Karsten” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karsten” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karsten” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karsten” 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
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 -100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 -100%
1969 24 0.000006906 24 -100%
1970 37 0.000010259 37 -100%
1971 29 0.000008449 29 -100%
1972 29 0.000009227 5 24 -66%
1973 26 0.000008618 26 -100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 -100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 -100%
1976 34 0.000011205 34 -100%
1977 26 0.000008185 26 -100%
1978 34 0.000010712 34 -100%
1979 23 0.000006913 23 -100%
1980 20 0.000005806 20 -100%
1981 24 0.000006938 24 -100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 29 0.000008153 29 -100%
1987 19 0.00000527 19 -100%
1988 34 0.000009202 34 -100%
1989 29 0.000007543 5 24 -66%
1990 32 0.000008096 32 -100%
1991 44 0.000011296 44 -100%
1992 47 0.000012236 5 42 -79%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 -100%
1994 52 0.000013987 6 46 -77%
1995 79 0.000021572 10 69 -75%
1996 59 0.000016177 8 51 -73%
1997 64 0.000017652 13 51 -59%
1998 63 0.000017128 63 -100%
1999 76 0.000020575 9 67 -76%
2000 103 0.000027249 5 98 -90%
2001 107 0.000028584 107 -100%
2002 91 0.000024343 7 84 -85%
2003 109 0.000028667 12 97 -78%
2004 127 0.000033238 12 115 -81%
2005 121 0.000031471 6 115 -90%
2006 139 0.000035135 8 131 -88%
2007 130 0.000032519 5 125 -92%
2008 117 0.000029766 9 108 -85%
2009 112 0.000029318 8 104 -86%
2010 140 0.000037881 5 135 -93%
2011 120 0.000032807 7 113 -88%
2012 114 0.00003117 5 109 -91%
2013 107 0.00002935 7 100 -87%
2014 87 0.000023473 87 -100%
2015 70 0.000018914 70 -100%
2016 76 0.000020716 76 -100%
2017 62 0.000017337 62 -100%
2018 66 0.000018772 5 61 -85%
2019 78 0.000022472 5 73 -87%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 42 0.000012397 42 -100%
2022 24 0.000007094 24 -100%
2023 27 0.000008154 27 -100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 -100%

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