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How popular is “Nijah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nijah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nijah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nijah” 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
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 20 0.000005202 20 100%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 100%
1992 20 0.000005207 20 100%
1993 29 0.000007692 29 100%
1994 39 0.00001049 39 100%
1995 44 0.000012015 39 5 77%
1996 58 0.000015903 51 7 76%
1997 49 0.000013514 43 6 76%
1998 81 0.000022022 75 6 85%
1999 72 0.000019492 62 10 72%
2000 79 0.0000209 71 8 80%
2001 71 0.000018967 63 8 77%
2002 62 0.000016585 53 9 71%
2003 81 0.000021303 75 6 85%
2004 72 0.000018844 65 7 81%
2005 62 0.000016125 54 8 74%
2006 36 0.0000091 30 6 67%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 43 0.00001094 35 8 63%
2009 66 0.000017277 55 11 67%
2010 38 0.000010282 33 5 74%
2011 27 0.000007382 27 100%
2012 23 0.000006289 12 11 4%
2013 19 0.000005212 11 8 16%
2014 23 0.000006206 10 13 -13%
2015 21 0.000005674 15 6 43%
2016 21 0.000005724 11 10 5%
2017 24 0.000006711 14 10 17%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 8 5 23%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 100%
2022 14 0.000004138 8 6 14%
2023 10 0.00000302 5 5 0%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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