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How popular is “Kentaro” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kentaro” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kentaro” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kentaro” 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
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 -100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 -100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 -100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%

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