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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kei” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kei” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kei” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kei” 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
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 15 0.000004509 6 9 -20%
1980 18 0.000005226 10 8 11%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 15 0.000004203 8 7 7%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 6 6 0%
1988 13 0.000003518 8 5 23%
1989 15 0.000003902 6 9 -20%
1990 19 0.000004807 8 11 -16%
1991 21 0.000005391 6 15 -43%
1992 18 0.000004686 7 11 -22%
1993 11 0.000002918 6 5 9%
1994 22 0.000005918 12 10 9%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 18 0.000004964 5 13 -44%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 15 0.000004061 7 8 -7%
2000 20 0.000005291 5 15 -50%
2001 22 0.000005877 8 14 -27%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 18 0.000004711 18 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 6 12 -33%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 5 17 -55%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 -100%
2010 13 0.000003518 7 6 8%
2011 18 0.000004921 7 11 -22%
2012 21 0.000005742 5 16 -52%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 30 0.000008094 5 25 -67%
2015 40 0.000010808 7 33 -65%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 -100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 -100%
2018 31 0.000008817 6 25 -61%
2019 27 0.000007779 5 22 -63%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 -100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 -100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 -100%
2023 33 0.000009966 7 26 -58%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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