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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Maize” in the USA?

Number of people named “Maize” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Maize” by birth year

This chart shows how “Maize” 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
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 11 0.000002998 6 5 9%
2017 14 0.000003915 8 6 14%
2018 26 0.000007395 18 8 38%
2019 31 0.000008931 18 13 16%
2020 26 0.000007783 19 7 46%
2021 33 0.00000974 23 10 39%
2022 36 0.000010641 26 10 44%
2023 18 0.000005436 10 8 11%
2024 36 0.000010816 18 18 0%

Explore other names

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  10. Maizey
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