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How popular is “Killian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Killian” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Killian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Killian” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 -100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 -100%
1986 20 0.000005623 7 13 -30%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 -100%
1988 30 0.000008119 8 22 -47%
1989 67 0.000017428 13 54 -61%
1990 91 0.000023024 10 81 -78%
1991 87 0.000022335 12 75 -72%
1992 93 0.000024211 22 71 -53%
1993 106 0.000028115 12 94 -77%
1994 106 0.000028513 12 94 -77%
1995 155 0.000042325 20 135 -74%
1996 161 0.000044144 16 145 -80%
1997 178 0.000049093 33 145 -63%
1998 158 0.000042956 21 137 -73%
1999 123 0.000033298 10 113 -84%
2000 158 0.0000418 19 139 -76%
2001 147 0.000039269 18 129 -76%
2002 130 0.000034775 13 117 -80%
2003 128 0.000033664 11 117 -83%
2004 166 0.000043445 15 151 -82%
2005 172 0.000044735 10 162 -88%
2006 188 0.00004752 12 176 -87%
2007 269 0.000067289 14 255 -90%
2008 290 0.000073779 16 274 -89%
2009 323 0.000084551 19 304 -88%
2010 309 0.00008361 16 293 -90%
2011 316 0.000086391 17 299 -89%
2012 281 0.000076831 11 270 -92%
2013 310 0.000085032 16 294 -90%
2014 561 0.000151361 16 545 -94%
2015 1001 0.000270474 25 976 -95%
2016 1401 0.000381879 19 1382 -97%
2017 1527 0.00042699 22 1505 -97%
2018 1250 0.000355528 21 1229 -97%
2019 1105 0.000318358 16 1089 -97%
2020 912 0.000273007 13 899 -97%
2021 960 0.000283357 21 939 -96%
2022 922 0.000272528 20 902 -96%
2023 896 0.000270597 12 884 -97%
2024 896 0.00026919 12 884 -97%

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  5. Killiam
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