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How popular is “Lian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lian” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lian” 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
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 100%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 100%
1990 23 0.000005819 18 5 57%
1991 24 0.000006161 19 5 58%
1992 21 0.000005467 14 7 33%
1993 19 0.000005039 13 6 37%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 15 0.000004096 8 7 7%
1996 20 0.000005484 15 5 50%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 25 0.000006614 17 8 36%
2001 26 0.000006946 14 12 8%
2002 31 0.000008293 17 14 10%
2003 38 0.000009994 24 14 26%
2004 33 0.000008637 21 12 27%
2005 30 0.000007803 17 13 13%
2006 40 0.000010111 17 23 -15%
2007 59 0.000014759 29 30 -2%
2008 51 0.000012975 25 26 -2%
2009 75 0.000019633 32 43 -15%
2010 96 0.000025976 39 57 -19%
2011 90 0.000024605 19 71 -58%
2012 120 0.00003281 41 79 -32%
2013 157 0.000043065 47 110 -40%
2014 148 0.000039931 29 119 -61%
2015 204 0.000055122 39 165 -62%
2016 242 0.000065963 46 196 -62%
2017 244 0.000068229 50 194 -59%
2018 250 0.000071106 41 209 -67%
2019 308 0.000088737 35 273 -77%
2020 336 0.000100581 43 293 -74%
2021 395 0.00011659 50 345 -75%
2022 431 0.000127397 39 392 -82%
2023 517 0.000156137 25 492 -90%
2024 626 0.000188073 32 594 -90%

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