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How popular is “Kary” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kary” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kary” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kary” 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
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 5 7 -17%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 10 9 5%
1944 20 0.000007435 6 14 -40%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 -100%
1946 21 0.000006572 7 14 -33%
1947 31 0.000008606 12 19 -23%
1948 22 0.000006372 9 13 -18%
1949 25 0.000007174 10 15 -20%
1950 29 0.000008278 13 16 -10%
1951 26 0.000007058 13 13 0%
1952 19 0.000005003 19 -100%
1953 31 0.000008044 9 22 -42%
1954 46 0.000011556 18 28 -22%
1955 49 0.000012204 23 26 -6%
1956 48 0.000011642 25 23 4%
1957 63 0.000014992 31 32 -2%
1958 77 0.000018626 27 50 -30%
1959 69 0.000016595 30 39 -13%
1960 70 0.000016852 23 47 -34%
1961 91 0.000021968 53 38 16%
1962 87 0.000021559 39 48 -10%
1963 92 0.000023243 42 50 -9%
1964 81 0.000020835 40 41 -1%
1965 65 0.000017929 24 41 -26%
1966 67 0.000019277 30 37 -10%
1967 94 0.000027689 60 34 28%
1968 89 0.000026344 48 41 8%
1969 76 0.000021868 38 38 0%
1970 90 0.000024955 52 38 16%
1971 108 0.000031465 67 41 24%
1972 98 0.00003118 76 22 55%
1973 63 0.000020882 45 18 43%
1974 82 0.000026974 52 30 27%
1975 88 0.000029145 65 23 48%
1976 76 0.000025047 52 24 37%
1977 94 0.000029592 64 30 36%
1978 73 0.000023 51 22 40%
1979 68 0.000020439 47 21 38%
1980 42 0.000012193 27 15 29%
1981 61 0.000017633 40 21 31%
1982 58 0.000016534 38 20 31%
1983 51 0.000014726 37 14 45%
1984 39 0.000011179 29 10 49%
1985 59 0.000016531 34 25 15%
1986 41 0.000011526 23 18 12%
1987 35 0.000009707 24 11 37%
1988 45 0.000012178 22 23 -2%
1989 42 0.000010925 27 15 29%
1990 43 0.000010879 27 16 26%
1991 28 0.000007188 17 11 21%
1992 36 0.000009372 26 10 44%
1993 35 0.000009283 23 12 31%
1994 27 0.000007263 20 7 48%
1995 29 0.000007919 22 7 52%
1996 21 0.000005758 12 9 14%
1997 24 0.000006619 15 9 25%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 100%
1999 22 0.000005956 14 8 27%
2000 15 0.000003968 15 100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 100%
2002 25 0.000006688 20 5 60%
2003 15 0.000003945 15 100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 100%
2012 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%

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