How popular is “Kenshin” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Kenshin” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Kenshin” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Males	Bias toward female
2001	7	0.00000187	7	-100%
2003	23	0.000006049	23	-100%
2004	18	0.000004711	18	-100%
2005	22	0.000005722	22	-100%
2006	9	0.000002275	9	-100%
2007	21	0.000005253	21	-100%
2008	16	0.000004071	16	-100%
2009	16	0.000004188	16	-100%
2010	22	0.000005953	22	-100%
2011	13	0.000003554	13	-100%
2012	10	0.000002734	10	-100%
2013	20	0.000005486	20	-100%
2014	20	0.000005396	20	-100%
2015	11	0.000002972	11	-100%
2016	18	0.000004906	18	-100%
2017	17	0.000004754	17	-100%
2018	11	0.000003129	11	-100%
2019	17	0.000004898	17	-100%
2020	15	0.00000449	15	-100%
2021	10	0.000002952	10	-100%
2022	23	0.000006798	23	-100%
2023	9	0.000002718	9	-100%
2024	5	0.000001502	5	-100%

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