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How popular is “Kem” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kem” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kem” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kem” 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
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 -100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 -100%
1952 21 0.000005529 5 16 -52%
1953 19 0.00000493 19 -100%
1954 39 0.000009797 14 25 -28%
1955 46 0.000011457 14 32 -39%
1956 85 0.000020616 20 65 -53%
1957 75 0.000017848 24 51 -36%
1958 65 0.000015724 21 44 -35%
1959 61 0.000014671 27 34 -11%
1960 47 0.000011315 21 26 -11%
1961 53 0.000012795 16 37 -40%
1962 55 0.000013629 31 24 13%
1963 47 0.000011874 17 30 -28%
1964 50 0.000012861 23 27 -8%
1965 45 0.000012412 20 25 -11%
1966 31 0.000008919 18 13 16%
1967 24 0.000007069 8 16 -33%
1968 29 0.000008584 10 19 -31%
1969 20 0.000005755 10 10 0%
1970 21 0.000005823 11 10 5%
1971 22 0.00000641 12 10 9%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 -100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 5 5 0%
1977 10 0.000003148 5 5 0%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
2005 6 0.000001561 6 -100%

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