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How popular is “Kelechi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kelechi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kelechi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kelechi” 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
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 6 7 -8%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 6 6 0%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1989 19 0.000004942 5 14 -47%
1990 14 0.000003542 6 8 -14%
1991 16 0.000004108 6 10 -25%
1992 19 0.000004946 5 14 -47%
1993 20 0.000005305 10 10 0%
1994 28 0.000007532 7 21 -50%
1995 34 0.000009284 13 21 -24%
1996 14 0.000003839 14 -100%
1997 26 0.000007171 9 17 -31%
1998 24 0.000006525 7 17 -42%
1999 31 0.000008392 14 17 -10%
2000 27 0.000007143 10 17 -26%
2001 25 0.000006678 11 14 -12%
2002 34 0.000009095 10 24 -41%
2003 23 0.000006049 10 13 -13%
2004 36 0.000009422 15 21 -17%
2005 32 0.000008323 8 24 -50%
2006 28 0.000007078 13 15 -7%
2007 23 0.000005753 11 12 -4%
2008 17 0.000004325 5 12 -41%
2009 24 0.000006282 6 18 -50%
2010 17 0.0000046 6 11 -29%
2011 13 0.000003554 6 7 -8%
2012 22 0.000006015 8 14 -27%
2013 19 0.000005212 5 14 -47%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 23 0.000006269 5 18 -57%
2017 18 0.000005033 6 12 -33%
2018 24 0.000006826 6 18 -50%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 6 11 -29%
2021 17 0.000005018 6 11 -29%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 -100%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%
2024 19 0.000005708 6 13 -37%

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