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How popular is “Kenyatta” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kenyatta” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kenyatta” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kenyatta” 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
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1963 27 0.000006821 11 16 -19%
1964 25 0.000006431 11 14 -12%
1965 17 0.000004689 6 11 -29%
1966 26 0.000007481 9 17 -31%
1967 33 0.00000972 10 23 -39%
1968 36 0.000010656 15 21 -17%
1969 71 0.00002043 32 39 -10%
1970 147 0.00004076 67 80 -9%
1971 164 0.000047781 59 105 -28%
1972 244 0.000077633 133 111 9%
1973 265 0.000087839 123 142 -7%
1974 266 0.0000875 118 148 -11%
1975 443 0.000146718 217 226 -2%
1976 343 0.000113041 161 182 -6%
1977 313 0.000098536 153 160 -2%
1978 345 0.0001087 187 158 8%
1979 316 0.00009498 198 118 25%
1980 265 0.000076934 161 104 22%
1981 206 0.000059548 145 61 41%
1982 174 0.000049601 130 44 49%
1983 169 0.000048797 132 37 56%
1984 163 0.000046722 135 28 66%
1985 151 0.000042307 118 33 56%
1986 127 0.000035703 101 26 59%
1987 148 0.000041047 117 31 58%
1988 146 0.000039512 112 34 53%
1989 136 0.000035376 99 37 46%
1990 190 0.000048071 149 41 57%
1991 199 0.000051088 151 48 52%
1992 178 0.000046339 130 48 46%
1993 182 0.000048272 120 62 32%
1994 172 0.000046266 105 67 22%
1995 157 0.000042871 100 57 27%
1996 161 0.000044144 91 70 13%
1997 132 0.000036406 66 66 0%
1998 142 0.000038606 83 59 17%
1999 119 0.000032216 56 63 -6%
2000 106 0.000028043 37 69 -30%
2001 101 0.000026981 51 50 1%
2002 87 0.000023273 36 51 -17%
2003 72 0.000018936 37 35 3%
2004 88 0.000023031 42 46 -5%
2005 64 0.000016646 41 23 28%
2006 56 0.000014155 30 26 7%
2007 59 0.000014759 30 29 2%
2008 60 0.000015265 18 42 -40%
2009 42 0.000010994 21 21 0%
2010 32 0.000008659 11 21 -31%
2011 44 0.000012029 15 29 -32%
2012 38 0.00001039 13 25 -32%
2013 23 0.000006309 6 17 -48%
2014 23 0.000006206 6 17 -48%
2015 20 0.000005404 10 10 0%
2016 25 0.000006814 12 13 -4%
2017 17 0.000004754 17 -100%
2018 21 0.000005973 5 16 -52%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 6 8 -14%
2021 19 0.000005608 5 14 -47%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 -100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 6 9 -20%

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