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How popular is “Lam” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lam” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lam” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lam” 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 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 -100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 -100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 -100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 -100%
1983 27 0.000007796 27 -100%
1984 28 0.000008026 6 22 -57%
1985 19 0.000005323 19 -100%
1986 19 0.000005341 19 -100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 -100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 21 0.000005391 21 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 15 0.000003978 15 -100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 -100%
1995 13 0.00000355 13 -100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 -100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 -100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 -100%
2003 17 0.000004471 8 9 -6%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 15 0.000003752 5 10 -33%
2008 16 0.000004071 5 11 -38%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 16 0.000004374 5 11 -38%
2012 17 0.000004648 7 10 -18%
2013 20 0.000005486 9 11 -10%
2014 13 0.000003507 8 5 23%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 23 0.000006269 6 17 -48%
2017 14 0.000003915 7 7 0%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 14 0.000004033 5 9 -29%
2021 12 0.000003542 5 7 -17%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 -100%

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