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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nihal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nihal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nihal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nihal” 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
1993 7 0.000001857 7 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 12 0.000003262 6 6 0%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 -100%
2001 29 0.000007747 5 24 -66%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 -100%
2004 31 0.000008113 31 -100%
2005 34 0.000008843 34 -100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 -100%
2007 34 0.000008505 9 25 -47%
2008 31 0.000007887 6 25 -61%
2009 36 0.000009424 8 28 -56%
2010 33 0.000008929 6 27 -64%
2011 44 0.000012029 14 30 -36%
2012 39 0.000010663 9 30 -54%
2013 53 0.000014538 18 35 -32%
2014 54 0.000014569 13 41 -52%
2015 52 0.000014051 11 41 -58%
2016 61 0.000016627 23 38 -25%
2017 54 0.0000151 17 37 -37%
2018 42 0.000011946 12 30 -43%
2019 44 0.000012677 10 34 -55%
2020 33 0.000009879 11 22 -33%
2021 53 0.000015644 14 39 -47%
2022 37 0.000010937 12 25 -35%
2023 39 0.000011778 7 32 -64%
2024 56 0.000016824 15 41 -46%

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