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How popular is “Kena” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kena” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kena” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kena” 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
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1959 18 0.000004329 18 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1961 21 0.00000507 21 100%
1962 18 0.000004461 18 100%
1963 30 0.000007579 30 100%
1964 33 0.000008489 33 100%
1965 31 0.000008551 31 100%
1966 28 0.000008056 28 100%
1967 27 0.000007953 27 100%
1968 46 0.000013616 46 100%
1969 39 0.000011222 39 100%
1970 42 0.000011646 42 100%
1971 42 0.000012236 42 100%
1972 51 0.000016227 51 100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 100%
1974 43 0.000014145 43 100%
1975 70 0.000023183 70 100%
1976 63 0.000020763 63 100%
1977 50 0.000015741 50 100%
1978 58 0.000018274 58 100%
1979 47 0.000014127 47 100%
1980 55 0.000015967 55 100%
1981 51 0.000014743 51 100%
1982 40 0.000011403 40 100%
1983 32 0.00000924 32 100%
1984 21 0.000006019 21 100%
1985 45 0.000012608 45 100%
1986 30 0.000008434 30 100%
1987 37 0.000010262 37 100%
1988 29 0.000007848 29 100%
1989 19 0.000004942 19 100%
1990 28 0.000007084 28 100%
1991 32 0.000008215 32 100%
1992 24 0.000006248 24 100%
1993 23 0.0000061 23 100%
1994 23 0.000006187 23 100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 100%
2004 19 0.000004973 19 100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 9 6 20%
2013 22 0.000006035 22 100%
2014 16 0.000004317 11 5 38%
2015 14 0.000003783 9 5 29%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 100%
2017 21 0.000005872 14 7 33%
2018 22 0.000006257 12 10 9%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 100%
2020 16 0.00000479 9 7 13%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 -100%
2022 24 0.000007094 19 5 58%
2023 26 0.000007852 17 9 31%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 100%

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