How popular is “Malaysia” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Malaysia” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Malaysia” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1987	8	0.000002219	8	100%
1988	10	0.000002706	10	100%
1989	23	0.000005983	23	100%
1990	28	0.000007084	28	100%
1991	42	0.000010782	42	100%
1992	54	0.000014058	54	100%
1993	59	0.000015649	59	100%
1994	77	0.000020712	77	100%
1995	78	0.000021299	78	100%
1996	124	0.000033999	124	100%
1997	125	0.000034476	125	100%
1998	143	0.000038878	143	100%
1999	152	0.000041149	152	100%
2000	211	0.000055822	211	100%
2001	194	0.000051825	194	100%
2002	186	0.000049755	186	100%
2003	200	0.000052599	200	100%
2004	178	0.000046586	178	100%
2005	234	0.000060861	234	100%
2006	207	0.000052323	207	100%
2007	177	0.000044276	177	100%
2008	208	0.000052917	208	100%
2009	215	0.00005628	215	100%
2010	222	0.000060069	222	100%
2011	266	0.000072721	266	100%
2012	515	0.000140812	515	100%
2013	635	0.000174179	635	100%
2014	822	0.00022178	822	100%
2015	725	0.000195898	725	100%
2016	687	0.00018726	687	100%
2017	660	0.000184554	660	100%
2018	627	0.000178333	627	100%
2019	547	0.000157595	547	100%
2020	465	0.000139198	465	100%
2021	483	0.000142564	483	100%
2022	489	0.00014454	489	100%
2023	363	0.000109628	363	100%
2024	314	0.000094337	314	100%

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