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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kia” 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
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1961 19 0.000004587 19 100%
1962 17 0.000004213 17 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 27 0.000006945 27 100%
1965 30 0.000008275 30 100%
1966 49 0.000014098 49 100%
1967 40 0.000011782 40 100%
1968 58 0.000017168 58 100%
1969 65 0.000018703 65 100%
1970 106 0.000029391 106 100%
1971 161 0.000046907 161 100%
1972 156 0.000049634 156 100%
1973 162 0.000053698 162 100%
1974 183 0.000060197 183 100%
1975 191 0.000063258 186 5 95%
1976 177 0.000058333 177 100%
1977 225 0.000070833 217 8 93%
1978 237 0.000074672 237 100%
1979 193 0.00005801 185 8 92%
1980 224 0.000065031 224 100%
1981 263 0.000076025 263 100%
1982 270 0.000076968 270 100%
1983 279 0.000080558 272 7 95%
1984 188 0.000053887 188 100%
1985 225 0.000063041 219 6 95%
1986 272 0.000076467 264 8 94%
1987 201 0.000055746 196 5 95%
1988 161 0.000043572 153 8 90%
1989 217 0.000056445 205 12 89%
1990 235 0.000059456 229 6 95%
1991 253 0.000064951 253 100%
1992 247 0.000064302 247 100%
1993 357 0.000094688 344 13 93%
1994 237 0.00006375 229 8 93%
1995 219 0.000059801 211 8 93%
1996 234 0.000064159 226 8 93%
1997 204 0.000056264 193 11 89%
1998 214 0.000058181 209 5 95%
1999 162 0.000043856 153 9 89%
2000 132 0.000034922 132 100%
2001 114 0.000030454 106 8 86%
2002 101 0.000027018 95 6 88%
2003 71 0.000018673 66 5 86%
2004 57 0.000014918 57 100%
2005 61 0.000015865 56 5 84%
2006 54 0.000013649 49 5 81%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 35 0.000008904 35 100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 26 0.000007035 26 100%
2011 31 0.000008475 31 100%
2012 26 0.000007109 26 100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 100%
2016 27 0.00000736 21 6 56%
2017 19 0.000005313 14 5 47%
2018 21 0.000005973 16 5 52%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 100%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 100%
2022 26 0.000007685 21 5 62%
2023 10 0.00000302 5 5 0%
2024 13 0.000003906 7 6 8%

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