Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Kiel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kiel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kiel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kiel” 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 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 -100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 68 0.000019657 68 -100%
1982 194 0.000055303 194 -100%
1983 287 0.000082868 8 279 -94%
1984 267 0.000076532 5 262 -96%
1985 226 0.000063321 5 221 -96%
1986 183 0.000051447 183 -100%
1987 129 0.000035778 7 122 -89%
1988 85 0.000023004 85 -100%
1989 81 0.000021069 81 -100%
1990 73 0.000018469 73 -100%
1991 53 0.000013606 53 -100%
1992 57 0.000014839 57 -100%
1993 63 0.00001671 5 58 -84%
1994 55 0.000014794 55 -100%
1995 51 0.000013926 51 -100%
1996 42 0.000011516 42 -100%
1997 45 0.000012411 45 -100%
1998 41 0.000011147 41 -100%
1999 34 0.000009204 34 -100%
2000 38 0.000010053 38 -100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 -100%
2002 21 0.000005618 21 -100%
2003 24 0.000006312 24 -100%
2004 23 0.000006019 23 -100%
2005 20 0.000005202 20 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 20 0.000005088 20 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 -100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 -100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 -100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 -100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 -100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 -100%
2017 15 0.000004194 15 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 -100%
2022 8 0.000002365 8 -100%
2023 14 0.000004228 14 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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