Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Mai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mai” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mai” 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
1880 6 0.000029779 6 100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 15 0.000006747 15 100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 100%
1938 9 0.000004068 9 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 100%
1971 21 0.000006118 21 100%
1972 21 0.000006682 21 100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 100%
1975 24 0.000007949 24 100%
1976 32 0.000010546 32 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 31 0.000009767 31 100%
1979 49 0.000014728 49 100%
1980 71 0.000020613 71 100%
1981 138 0.000039892 138 100%
1982 134 0.000038199 134 100%
1983 148 0.000042733 148 100%
1984 184 0.000052741 179 5 95%
1985 182 0.000050993 173 9 90%
1986 166 0.000046668 166 100%
1987 154 0.000042711 154 100%
1988 184 0.000049796 184 100%
1989 245 0.000063728 239 6 95%
1990 254 0.000064263 254 100%
1991 221 0.000056736 221 100%
1992 201 0.000052326 201 100%
1993 202 0.000053577 202 100%
1994 213 0.000057294 213 100%
1995 165 0.000045055 165 100%
1996 132 0.000036192 132 100%
1997 95 0.000026201 95 100%
1998 89 0.000024197 89 100%
1999 84 0.00002274 84 100%
2000 71 0.000018784 71 100%
2001 74 0.000019768 74 100%
2002 63 0.000016853 63 100%
2003 81 0.000021303 81 100%
2004 74 0.000019367 74 100%
2005 84 0.000021847 84 100%
2006 75 0.000018958 75 100%
2007 69 0.00001726 69 100%
2008 79 0.000020098 79 100%
2009 76 0.000019894 76 100%
2010 58 0.000015694 58 100%
2011 61 0.000016677 61 100%
2012 55 0.000015038 55 100%
2013 55 0.000015086 55 100%
2014 55 0.000014839 55 100%
2015 46 0.000012429 46 100%
2016 49 0.000013356 49 100%
2017 34 0.000009507 34 100%
2018 53 0.000015074 53 100%
2019 50 0.000014405 50 100%
2020 48 0.000014369 48 100%
2021 58 0.00001712 58 100%
2022 55 0.000016257 55 100%
2023 51 0.000015402 51 100%
2024 49 0.000014721 49 100%

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