How popular is “Nayana” in the USA?

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

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

This chart shows how “Nayana” 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
1996	9	0.000002468	9	100%
1997	13	0.000003585	13	100%
1998	13	0.000003534	13	100%
1999	21	0.000005685	21	100%
2000	15	0.000003968	15	100%
2001	17	0.000004541	17	100%
2002	15	0.000004013	15	100%
2003	26	0.000006838	26	100%
2004	33	0.000008637	33	100%
2005	31	0.000008063	31	100%
2006	38	0.000009605	38	100%
2007	34	0.000008505	34	100%
2008	44	0.000011194	44	100%
2009	23	0.000006021	23	100%
2010	29	0.000007847	29	100%
2011	23	0.000006288	23	100%
2012	25	0.000006836	25	100%
2013	26	0.000007132	26	100%
2014	21	0.000005666	21	100%
2015	17	0.000004593	17	100%
2016	17	0.000004634	17	100%
2017	17	0.000004754	17	100%
2018	19	0.000005404	19	100%
2019	21	0.00000605	21	100%
2020	18	0.000005388	18	100%
2021	15	0.000004427	15	100%
2022	10	0.000002956	10	100%
2023	8	0.000002416	8	100%
2024	19	0.000005708	19	100%

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