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How popular is “Nikhil” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nikhil” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nikhil” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nikhil” 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
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 -100%
1975 12 0.000003974 12 -100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 26 0.000008192 26 -100%
1979 21 0.000006312 21 -100%
1980 23 0.000006677 23 -100%
1981 25 0.000007227 25 -100%
1982 28 0.000007982 28 -100%
1983 37 0.000010683 37 -100%
1984 37 0.000010606 37 -100%
1985 46 0.000012888 46 -100%
1986 49 0.000013775 49 -100%
1987 67 0.000018582 67 -100%
1988 62 0.000016779 62 -100%
1989 52 0.000013526 52 -100%
1990 46 0.000011638 46 -100%
1991 73 0.000018741 73 -100%
1992 93 0.000024211 93 -100%
1993 91 0.000024136 91 -100%
1994 86 0.000023133 86 -100%
1995 100 0.000027306 100 -100%
1996 122 0.00003345 122 -100%
1997 129 0.000035579 129 -100%
1998 145 0.000039421 145 -100%
1999 188 0.000050895 188 -100%
2000 183 0.000048414 183 -100%
2001 193 0.000051558 193 -100%
2002 182 0.000048685 182 -100%
2003 201 0.000052862 201 -100%
2004 204 0.00005339 204 -100%
2005 209 0.000054358 209 -100%
2006 223 0.000056367 223 -100%
2007 261 0.000065288 261 -100%
2008 241 0.000061313 241 -100%
2009 244 0.000063871 244 -100%
2010 192 0.000051952 192 -100%
2011 190 0.000051944 190 -100%
2012 158 0.0000432 158 -100%
2013 156 0.000042791 156 -100%
2014 173 0.000046676 173 -100%
2015 124 0.000033505 124 -100%
2016 93 0.00002535 93 -100%
2017 90 0.000025166 90 -100%
2018 79 0.000022469 79 -100%
2019 65 0.000018727 65 -100%
2020 70 0.000020954 70 -100%
2021 68 0.000020071 68 -100%
2022 54 0.000015962 54 -100%
2023 44 0.000013288 44 -100%
2024 53 0.000015923 53 -100%

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