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How popular is “Mali” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mali” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mali” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mali” 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
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 5 7 -17%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 100%
1992 18 0.000004686 13 5 44%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 100%
1995 15 0.000004096 15 100%
1996 14 0.000003839 14 100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 100%
1998 21 0.000005709 15 6 43%
1999 26 0.000007039 26 100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 100%
2001 24 0.000006411 24 100%
2002 29 0.000007758 29 100%
2003 55 0.000014465 55 100%
2004 35 0.00000916 35 100%
2005 48 0.000012484 43 5 79%
2006 37 0.000009352 37 100%
2007 46 0.000011507 46 100%
2008 65 0.000016537 65 100%
2009 57 0.000014921 52 5 82%
2010 42 0.000011364 42 100%
2011 48 0.000013123 48 100%
2012 48 0.000013124 48 100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 100%
2014 57 0.000015379 52 5 82%
2015 46 0.000012429 41 5 78%
2016 37 0.000010085 37 100%
2017 44 0.000012304 44 100%
2018 32 0.000009102 32 100%
2019 69 0.000019879 64 5 86%
2020 49 0.000014668 49 100%
2021 59 0.000017415 48 11 63%
2022 54 0.000015962 45 9 67%
2023 68 0.000020536 59 9 74%
2024 52 0.000015623 43 9 65%

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