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How popular is “Neko” in the USA?

Number of people named “Neko” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Neko” by birth year

This chart shows how “Neko” 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
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 -100%
1991 20 0.000005134 20 -100%
1992 29 0.00000755 29 -100%
1993 14 0.000003713 14 -100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 -100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 18 0.000004894 18 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 23 0.000006085 23 -100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 -100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 -100%
2003 19 0.000004997 19 -100%
2004 27 0.000007066 6 21 -56%
2005 21 0.000005462 5 16 -52%
2006 30 0.000007583 9 21 -40%
2007 45 0.000011257 10 35 -56%
2008 39 0.000009922 11 28 -44%
2009 57 0.000014921 19 38 -33%
2010 53 0.000014341 18 35 -32%
2011 40 0.000010936 12 28 -40%
2012 59 0.000016132 10 49 -66%
2013 49 0.000013441 11 38 -55%
2014 47 0.000012681 14 33 -40%
2015 41 0.000011078 11 30 -46%
2016 44 0.000011993 13 31 -41%
2017 39 0.000010905 8 31 -59%
2018 34 0.00000967 8 26 -53%
2019 37 0.00001066 11 26 -41%
2020 42 0.000012573 6 36 -71%
2021 63 0.000018595 8 55 -75%
2022 38 0.000011232 38 -100%
2023 41 0.000012382 8 33 -61%
2024 32 0.000009614 5 27 -69%

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