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How popular is “Mahmoud” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mahmoud” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mahmoud” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mahmoud” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 -100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 -100%
1976 13 0.000004284 13 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 17 0.000005356 17 -100%
1979 22 0.000006613 22 -100%
1980 23 0.000006677 23 -100%
1981 16 0.000004625 16 -100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 -100%
1983 33 0.000009528 33 -100%
1984 23 0.000006593 23 -100%
1985 26 0.000007285 26 -100%
1986 22 0.000006185 22 -100%
1987 28 0.000007766 28 -100%
1988 31 0.00000839 31 -100%
1989 44 0.000011445 44 -100%
1990 50 0.00001265 50 -100%
1991 47 0.000012066 47 -100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 -100%
1993 55 0.000014588 55 -100%
1994 58 0.000015601 58 -100%
1995 82 0.000022391 82 -100%
1996 75 0.000020564 75 -100%
1997 79 0.000021789 79 -100%
1998 79 0.000021478 79 -100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 -100%
2000 78 0.000020635 78 -100%
2001 78 0.000020837 78 -100%
2002 85 0.000022738 85 -100%
2003 65 0.000017095 65 -100%
2004 56 0.000014656 56 -100%
2005 62 0.000016125 62 -100%
2006 68 0.000017188 68 -100%
2007 59 0.000014759 59 -100%
2008 74 0.000018826 74 -100%
2009 66 0.000017277 66 -100%
2010 55 0.000014882 55 -100%
2011 49 0.000013396 49 -100%
2012 73 0.00001996 73 -100%
2013 68 0.000018652 68 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 75 -100%
2015 72 0.000019455 72 -100%
2016 60 0.000016355 60 -100%
2017 60 0.000016778 60 -100%
2018 91 0.000025882 91 -100%
2019 66 0.000019015 66 -100%
2020 54 0.000016165 54 -100%
2021 47 0.000013873 47 -100%
2022 60 0.000017735 60 -100%
2023 62 0.000018724 62 -100%
2024 62 0.000018627 62 -100%

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