How popular is “Nala” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Nala” 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 “Nala” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Nala” 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
1979	5	0.000001503	5	100%
1994	24	0.000006456	24	100%
1995	85	0.00002321	85	100%
1996	51	0.000013983	51	100%
1997	55	0.000015169	55	100%
1998	54	0.000014681	54	100%
1999	51	0.000013807	51	100%
2000	51	0.000013492	51	100%
2001	56	0.00001496	56	100%
2002	48	0.00001284	48	100%
2003	78	0.000020514	78	100%
2004	94	0.000024601	94	100%
2005	71	0.000018466	71	100%
2006	102	0.000025782	102	100%
2007	92	0.000023013	92	100%
2008	119	0.000030275	119	100%
2009	111	0.000029056	111	100%
2010	124	0.000033552	124	100%
2011	158	0.000043195	158	100%
2012	238	0.000065074	238	100%
2013	234	0.000064186	234	100%
2014	267	0.000072038	267	100%
2015	286	0.000077278	286	100%
2016	364	0.000099218	364	100%
2017	362	0.000101225	362	100%
2018	373	0.00010609	373	100%
2019	428	0.00012331	428	100%
2020	406	0.000121536	406	100%
2021	384	0.000113343	384	100%
2022	351	0.00010375	351	100%
2023	319	0.00009634	319	100%
2024	374	0.000112363	374	100%

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