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How popular is “Kieran” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kieran” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kieran” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kieran” 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
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1934 9 0.000004334 9 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 15 0.000004694 15 -100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 14 0.000004017 5 9 -29%
1950 18 0.000005138 18 -100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 -100%
1952 23 0.000006056 5 18 -57%
1953 20 0.00000519 20 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 26 0.000006476 26 -100%
1956 22 0.000005336 22 -100%
1957 28 0.000006663 28 -100%
1958 34 0.000008225 34 -100%
1959 38 0.000009139 6 32 -68%
1960 43 0.000010352 6 37 -72%
1961 39 0.000009415 39 -100%
1962 33 0.000008178 33 -100%
1963 40 0.000010106 7 33 -65%
1964 46 0.000011832 7 39 -70%
1965 56 0.000015446 10 46 -64%
1966 39 0.000011221 39 -100%
1967 50 0.000014728 8 42 -68%
1968 40 0.00001184 5 35 -75%
1969 37 0.000010646 6 31 -68%
1970 50 0.000013864 6 44 -76%
1971 63 0.000018355 10 53 -68%
1972 32 0.000010181 5 27 -69%
1973 44 0.000014585 5 39 -77%
1974 51 0.000016776 15 36 -41%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 -100%
1976 35 0.000011535 35 -100%
1977 49 0.000015426 6 43 -76%
1978 52 0.000016384 5 47 -81%
1979 57 0.000017133 7 50 -75%
1980 52 0.000015097 9 43 -65%
1981 58 0.000016766 8 50 -72%
1982 78 0.000022235 19 59 -51%
1983 62 0.000017902 13 49 -58%
1984 87 0.000024937 13 74 -70%
1985 79 0.000022134 14 65 -65%
1986 74 0.000020804 12 62 -68%
1987 71 0.000019692 11 60 -69%
1988 76 0.000020568 12 64 -68%
1989 92 0.000023931 8 84 -83%
1990 121 0.000030614 12 109 -80%
1991 120 0.000030807 15 105 -75%
1992 142 0.000036967 17 125 -76%
1993 215 0.000057025 23 192 -79%
1994 264 0.000071013 31 233 -77%
1995 297 0.0000811 32 265 -78%
1996 320 0.000087739 42 278 -74%
1997 295 0.000081363 36 259 -76%
1998 352 0.000095699 60 292 -66%
1999 378 0.000102332 59 319 -69%
2000 470 0.000124342 54 416 -77%
2001 465 0.000124219 55 410 -76%
2002 456 0.000121981 57 399 -75%
2003 481 0.000126502 52 429 -78%
2004 481 0.000125886 56 425 -77%
2005 464 0.000120681 56 408 -76%
2006 499 0.000126131 54 445 -78%
2007 527 0.000131826 77 450 -71%
2008 569 0.000144759 67 502 -76%
2009 591 0.000154705 63 528 -79%
2010 522 0.000141244 53 469 -80%
2011 613 0.000167587 51 562 -83%
2012 506 0.000138351 36 470 -86%
2013 506 0.000138795 35 471 -86%
2014 516 0.00013922 33 483 -87%
2015 589 0.00015915 29 560 -90%
2016 562 0.000153188 23 539 -92%
2017 601 0.000168056 34 567 -89%
2018 599 0.000170369 22 577 -93%
2019 606 0.000174593 25 581 -92%
2020 577 0.000172725 21 556 -93%
2021 606 0.000178869 8 598 -97%
2022 651 0.000192425 31 620 -90%
2023 657 0.000198418 21 636 -94%
2024 724 0.000217515 11 713 -97%

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