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How popular is “Nechama” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nechama” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nechama” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nechama” 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
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 100%
1972 22 0.000007 22 100%
1973 30 0.000009944 30 100%
1974 28 0.000009211 28 100%
1975 28 0.000009273 28 100%
1976 24 0.00000791 24 100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 100%
1978 30 0.000009452 30 100%
1979 38 0.000011422 38 100%
1980 38 0.000011032 38 100%
1981 44 0.000012719 44 100%
1982 42 0.000011973 42 100%
1983 50 0.000014437 50 100%
1984 47 0.000013472 47 100%
1985 44 0.000012328 44 100%
1986 52 0.000014619 52 100%
1987 34 0.00000943 34 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 46 0.000011965 46 100%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 100%
1991 50 0.000012836 50 100%
1992 63 0.000016401 63 100%
1993 53 0.000014057 53 100%
1994 71 0.000019098 71 100%
1995 54 0.000014745 54 100%
1996 63 0.000017274 63 100%
1997 56 0.000015445 56 100%
1998 66 0.000017944 66 100%
1999 65 0.000017597 65 100%
2000 83 0.000021958 83 100%
2001 75 0.000020035 75 100%
2002 69 0.000018458 69 100%
2003 75 0.000019725 75 100%
2004 89 0.000023293 89 100%
2005 86 0.000022368 86 100%
2006 86 0.000021738 86 100%
2007 89 0.000022263 89 100%
2008 100 0.000025441 100 100%
2009 106 0.000027747 106 100%
2010 95 0.000025705 95 100%
2011 108 0.000029526 108 100%
2012 83 0.000022694 83 100%
2013 102 0.000027978 102 100%
2014 111 0.000029948 111 100%
2015 118 0.000031884 118 100%
2016 112 0.000030529 112 100%
2017 79 0.000022091 79 100%
2018 119 0.000033846 119 100%
2019 103 0.000029675 103 100%
2020 121 0.000036221 121 100%
2021 126 0.000037191 126 100%
2022 138 0.000040791 138 100%
2023 135 0.000040771 135 100%
2024 135 0.000040559 135 100%

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