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How popular is “Kirin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kirin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kirin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kirin” 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
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 100%
1995 17 0.000004642 11 6 29%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 15 0.000004078 9 6 20%
1999 18 0.000004873 11 7 22%
2000 18 0.000004762 12 6 33%
2001 17 0.000004541 11 6 29%
2002 24 0.00000642 10 14 -17%
2003 26 0.000006838 15 11 15%
2004 23 0.000006019 9 14 -22%
2005 26 0.000006762 14 12 8%
2006 33 0.000008341 16 17 -3%
2007 39 0.000009756 17 22 -13%
2008 36 0.000009159 14 22 -22%
2009 25 0.000006544 6 19 -52%
2010 25 0.000006765 5 20 -60%
2011 47 0.000012849 17 30 -28%
2012 36 0.000009843 11 25 -39%
2013 29 0.000007955 11 18 -24%
2014 39 0.000010522 9 30 -54%
2015 38 0.000010268 11 27 -42%
2016 36 0.000009813 10 26 -44%
2017 19 0.000005313 6 13 -37%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 -100%
2019 43 0.000012389 7 36 -67%
2020 28 0.000008382 5 23 -64%
2021 35 0.000010331 6 29 -66%
2022 41 0.000012119 6 35 -71%
2023 17 0.000005134 5 12 -41%
2024 45 0.00001352 6 39 -73%

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