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How popular is “Kirsty” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kirsty” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Kirsty” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kirsty” 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 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 15 0.000004934 15 100%
1975 15 0.000004968 15 100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 100%
1978 25 0.000007877 25 100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 14 0.000003991 14 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 23 0.000006379 23 100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 100%
1989 62 0.000016127 62 100%
1990 94 0.000023783 94 100%
1991 99 0.000025415 99 100%
1992 91 0.00002369 91 100%
1993 54 0.000014323 54 100%
1994 46 0.000012373 46 100%
1995 35 0.000009557 35 100%
1996 37 0.000010145 37 100%
1997 21 0.000005792 21 100%
1998 16 0.00000435 16 100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 100%
2000 18 0.000004762 18 100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 100%

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