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How popular is “Leia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Leia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leia” 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
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1961 17 0.000004104 17 100%
1962 20 0.000004956 20 100%
1963 23 0.000005811 23 100%
1964 21 0.000005402 21 100%
1965 31 0.000008551 31 100%
1966 26 0.000007481 26 100%
1967 35 0.00001031 35 100%
1968 23 0.000006808 23 100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1970 23 0.000006377 23 100%
1971 29 0.000008449 29 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 21 0.000006908 21 100%
1975 20 0.000006624 20 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 98 0.000030852 98 100%
1978 156 0.000049151 156 100%
1979 118 0.000035467 118 100%
1980 162 0.000047031 162 100%
1981 126 0.000036423 126 100%
1982 99 0.000028222 99 100%
1983 135 0.00003898 135 100%
1984 94 0.000026944 94 100%
1985 86 0.000024096 86 100%
1986 70 0.000019679 70 100%
1987 73 0.000020246 73 100%
1988 66 0.000017862 66 100%
1989 63 0.000016387 63 100%
1990 69 0.000017457 69 100%
1991 60 0.000015403 60 100%
1992 67 0.000017442 67 100%
1993 65 0.00001724 65 100%
1994 48 0.000012911 48 100%
1995 87 0.000023757 87 100%
1996 65 0.000017822 65 100%
1997 106 0.000029235 106 100%
1998 94 0.000025556 94 100%
1999 103 0.000027884 103 100%
2000 123 0.000032541 123 100%
2001 125 0.000033392 125 100%
2002 152 0.00004066 152 100%
2003 142 0.000037346 142 100%
2004 160 0.000041875 160 100%
2005 206 0.000053578 206 100%
2006 272 0.000068753 272 100%
2007 288 0.000072042 288 100%
2008 294 0.000074797 294 100%
2009 341 0.000089263 341 100%
2010 323 0.000087398 323 100%
2011 351 0.00009596 351 100%
2012 422 0.000115384 422 100%
2013 509 0.000139618 509 100%
2014 611 0.000164851 611 100%
2015 766 0.000206976 766 100%
2016 1016 0.000276937 1016 100%
2017 1161 0.000324647 1161 100%
2018 1120 0.000318553 1120 100%
2019 957 0.000275718 957 100%
2020 1088 0.000325692 1088 100%
2021 1076 0.000317596 1076 100%
2022 1216 0.00035943 1216 100%
2023 1424 0.000430056 1424 100%
2024 1094 0.000328676 1094 100%

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