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How popular is “Kiernan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kiernan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kiernan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kiernan” 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
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1978 11 0.000003466 6 5 9%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 20 0.000005701 9 11 -10%
1983 10 0.000002887 5 5 0%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 15 0.000004203 5 10 -33%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 22 0.000006102 8 14 -27%
1988 17 0.000004601 5 12 -41%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 -100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 -100%
1991 33 0.000008472 13 20 -21%
1992 29 0.00000755 8 21 -45%
1993 48 0.000012731 16 32 -33%
1994 52 0.000013987 14 38 -46%
1995 49 0.00001338 15 34 -39%
1996 72 0.000019741 22 50 -39%
1997 57 0.000015721 17 40 -40%
1998 59 0.00001604 20 39 -32%
1999 74 0.000020033 26 48 -30%
2000 92 0.000024339 24 68 -48%
2001 88 0.000023508 28 60 -36%
2002 101 0.000027018 34 67 -33%
2003 94 0.000024722 25 69 -47%
2004 75 0.000019629 19 56 -49%
2005 84 0.000021847 17 67 -60%
2006 65 0.00001643 16 49 -51%
2007 87 0.000021763 21 66 -52%
2008 104 0.000026459 27 77 -48%
2009 89 0.000023297 23 66 -48%
2010 96 0.000025976 22 74 -54%
2011 74 0.000020231 14 60 -62%
2012 52 0.000014218 11 41 -58%
2013 50 0.000013715 16 34 -36%
2014 56 0.000015109 14 42 -50%
2015 51 0.00001378 11 40 -57%
2016 45 0.000012266 13 32 -42%
2017 79 0.000022091 25 54 -37%
2018 62 0.000017634 19 43 -39%
2019 58 0.00001671 29 29 0%
2020 54 0.000016165 21 33 -22%
2021 58 0.00001712 17 41 -41%
2022 45 0.000013301 14 31 -38%
2023 41 0.000012382 12 29 -41%
2024 45 0.00001352 6 39 -73%

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