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How popular is “Nigeria” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nigeria” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nigeria” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nigeria” 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
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 100%
1994 28 0.000007532 28 100%
1995 34 0.000009284 34 100%
1996 45 0.000012338 45 100%
1997 40 0.000011032 40 100%
1998 45 0.000012234 45 100%
1999 40 0.000010829 40 100%
2000 58 0.000015344 58 100%
2001 50 0.000013357 50 100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 100%
2003 34 0.000008942 34 100%
2004 25 0.000006543 25 100%
2005 27 0.000007022 27 100%
2006 28 0.000007078 28 100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%

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