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How popular is “Niklas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Niklas” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Niklas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Niklas” 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
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 -100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 -100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 -100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 -100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 -100%
1988 16 0.00000433 16 -100%
1989 31 0.000008064 31 -100%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 -100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 -100%
1992 27 0.000007029 27 -100%
1993 35 0.000009283 35 -100%
1994 44 0.000011835 44 -100%
1995 40 0.000010923 40 -100%
1996 71 0.000019467 71 -100%
1997 78 0.000021513 78 -100%
1998 59 0.00001604 59 -100%
1999 71 0.000019221 71 -100%
2000 90 0.00002381 90 -100%
2001 75 0.000020035 75 -100%
2002 71 0.000018993 71 -100%
2003 74 0.000019462 74 -100%
2004 58 0.00001518 58 -100%
2005 77 0.000020027 77 -100%
2006 78 0.000019716 78 -100%
2007 66 0.00001651 66 -100%
2008 48 0.000012212 48 -100%
2009 49 0.000012827 49 -100%
2010 56 0.000015153 56 -100%
2011 30 0.000008202 30 -100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 -100%
2013 45 0.000012343 45 -100%
2014 24 0.000006475 24 -100%
2015 24 0.000006485 24 -100%
2016 25 0.000006814 25 -100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 -100%
2018 13 0.000003697 13 -100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 -100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 -100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 -100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 -100%

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