Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Loki” in the USA?

Number of people named “Loki” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Loki” by birth year

This chart shows how “Loki” 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
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 -100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 -100%
2003 20 0.00000526 20 -100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 -100%
2005 32 0.000008323 32 -100%
2006 39 0.000009858 39 -100%
2007 57 0.000014258 5 52 -82%
2008 55 0.000013993 55 -100%
2009 61 0.000015968 8 53 -74%
2010 56 0.000015153 56 -100%
2011 76 0.000020778 5 71 -87%
2012 77 0.000021053 77 -100%
2013 87 0.000023864 87 -100%
2014 120 0.000032377 8 112 -87%
2015 122 0.000032965 6 116 -90%
2016 94 0.000025622 94 -100%
2017 97 0.000027124 5 92 -90%
2018 129 0.00003669 6 123 -91%
2019 161 0.000046385 11 150 -86%
2020 140 0.000041909 5 135 -93%
2021 168 0.000049588 12 156 -86%
2022 145 0.00004286 9 136 -88%
2023 117 0.000035335 8 109 -86%
2024 93 0.000027941 93 -100%

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