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How popular is “Niko” in the USA?

Number of people named “Niko” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Niko” by birth year

This chart shows how “Niko” 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
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1968 16 0.000004736 10 6 25%
1969 19 0.000005467 14 5 47%
1970 25 0.000006932 16 9 28%
1971 28 0.000008158 16 12 14%
1972 36 0.000011454 23 13 28%
1973 34 0.00001127 18 16 6%
1974 29 0.000009539 20 9 38%
1975 18 0.000005961 12 6 33%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 15 0.000004722 7 8 -7%
1978 13 0.000004096 5 8 -23%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 5 7 -17%
1983 21 0.000006064 21 -100%
1984 18 0.000005159 18 -100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 17 0.000004715 6 11 -29%
1988 80 0.000021651 5 75 -88%
1989 146 0.000037977 5 141 -93%
1990 171 0.000043264 171 -100%
1991 170 0.000043643 170 -100%
1992 148 0.000038529 7 141 -91%
1993 142 0.000037663 142 -100%
1994 156 0.000041962 156 -100%
1995 174 0.000047513 8 166 -91%
1996 153 0.00004195 7 146 -91%
1997 153 0.000042198 6 147 -92%
1998 153 0.000041596 5 148 -93%
1999 128 0.000034652 5 123 -92%
2000 147 0.00003889 7 140 -90%
2001 166 0.000044345 166 -100%
2002 164 0.00004387 6 158 -93%
2003 186 0.000048918 9 177 -90%
2004 175 0.0000458 175 -100%
2005 169 0.000043955 7 162 -92%
2006 199 0.000050301 9 190 -91%
2007 225 0.000056283 8 217 -93%
2008 279 0.00007098 15 264 -89%
2009 287 0.000075127 14 273 -90%
2010 288 0.000077928 10 278 -93%
2011 315 0.000086118 12 303 -92%
2012 360 0.000098431 14 346 -92%
2013 445 0.000122063 12 433 -95%
2014 442 0.000119254 11 431 -95%
2015 436 0.000117809 11 425 -95%
2016 452 0.000123204 13 439 -94%
2017 523 0.000146245 16 507 -94%
2018 556 0.000158139 7 549 -97%
2019 755 0.000217521 13 742 -97%
2020 885 0.000264924 15 870 -97%
2021 1190 0.000351245 19 1171 -97%
2022 1211 0.000357952 20 1191 -97%
2023 1051 0.000317408 14 1037 -97%
2024 1018 0.000305843 17 1001 -97%

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