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How popular is “Leilah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leilah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Leilah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leilah” 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
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 16 0.000004332 16 100%
2000 39 0.000010318 39 100%
2001 33 0.000008816 33 100%
2002 53 0.000014178 53 100%
2003 90 0.00002367 90 100%
2004 85 0.000022246 85 100%
2005 99 0.000025749 99 100%
2006 125 0.000031596 125 100%
2007 160 0.000040023 160 100%
2008 191 0.000048592 191 100%
2009 216 0.000056542 216 100%
2010 251 0.000067916 251 100%
2011 215 0.000058779 215 100%
2012 189 0.000051677 189 100%
2013 204 0.000055957 204 100%
2014 211 0.000056929 211 100%
2015 196 0.00005296 196 100%
2016 176 0.000047973 176 100%
2017 205 0.000057323 205 100%
2018 198 0.000056316 198 100%
2019 167 0.000048114 167 100%
2020 160 0.000047896 160 100%
2021 162 0.000047817 162 100%
2022 194 0.000057343 194 100%
2023 157 0.000047415 157 100%
2024 115 0.00003455 115 100%

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