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How popular is “Nessa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nessa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nessa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nessa” 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
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 100%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 100%
1992 17 0.000004426 17 100%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 100%
1994 17 0.000004573 17 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 25 0.000006543 25 100%
2005 31 0.000008063 31 100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 100%
2007 26 0.000006504 26 100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 100%
2009 31 0.000008115 31 100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 100%
2011 37 0.000010115 37 100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 100%
2013 32 0.000008778 32 100%
2014 32 0.000008634 32 100%
2015 48 0.00001297 48 100%
2016 83 0.000022624 83 100%
2017 74 0.000020692 74 100%
2018 63 0.000017919 63 100%
2019 43 0.000012389 43 100%
2020 53 0.000015866 53 100%
2021 59 0.000017415 59 100%
2022 53 0.000015666 53 100%
2023 54 0.000016308 54 100%
2024 58 0.000017425 58 100%

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