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How popular is “Nichelle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nichelle” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nichelle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nichelle” 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
1961 13 0.000003138 13 100%
1962 21 0.000005204 21 100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 100%
1964 20 0.000005145 20 100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 361 0.000106336 361 100%
1968 395 0.000116919 395 100%
1969 331 0.000095243 331 100%
1970 205 0.000056842 205 100%
1971 164 0.000047781 164 100%
1972 112 0.000035635 112 100%
1973 114 0.000037787 114 100%
1974 107 0.000035197 107 100%
1975 117 0.000038749 117 100%
1976 87 0.000028672 87 100%
1977 102 0.000032111 102 100%
1978 124 0.000039069 124 100%
1979 94 0.000028254 94 100%
1980 135 0.000039193 135 100%
1981 90 0.000026016 90 100%
1982 123 0.000035063 123 100%
1983 112 0.000032339 112 100%
1984 133 0.000038122 133 100%
1985 152 0.000042588 152 100%
1986 118 0.000033173 118 100%
1987 139 0.000038551 139 100%
1988 121 0.000032747 121 100%
1989 160 0.000041618 155 5 94%
1990 157 0.000039722 157 100%
1991 169 0.000043386 169 100%
1992 181 0.00004712 181 100%
1993 132 0.000035011 132 100%
1994 136 0.000036582 136 100%
1995 116 0.000031675 116 100%
1996 92 0.000025225 92 100%
1997 97 0.000026753 97 100%
1998 63 0.000017128 63 100%
1999 53 0.000014348 53 100%
2000 57 0.00001508 57 100%
2001 66 0.000017631 66 100%
2002 39 0.000010433 39 100%
2003 47 0.000012361 47 100%
2004 39 0.000010207 39 100%
2005 40 0.000010404 40 100%
2006 34 0.000008594 34 100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 100%
2008 35 0.000008904 35 100%
2009 35 0.000009162 35 100%
2010 23 0.000006223 23 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 100%

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