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How popular is “Nikolai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nikolai” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nikolai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nikolai” 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
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 -100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 -100%
1972 16 0.000005091 16 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 -100%
1974 21 0.000006908 21 -100%
1975 31 0.000010267 31 -100%
1976 32 0.000010546 32 -100%
1977 24 0.000007555 24 -100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 -100%
1979 28 0.000008416 28 -100%
1980 26 0.000007548 26 -100%
1981 24 0.000006938 24 -100%
1982 21 0.000005986 21 -100%
1983 18 0.000005197 18 -100%
1984 27 0.000007739 27 -100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 -100%
1986 29 0.000008153 29 -100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 -100%
1988 36 0.000009743 36 -100%
1989 45 0.000011705 45 -100%
1990 52 0.000013156 52 -100%
1991 65 0.000016687 65 -100%
1992 62 0.00001614 62 -100%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 -100%
1994 76 0.000020443 76 -100%
1995 68 0.000018568 68 -100%
1996 82 0.000022483 82 -100%
1997 76 0.000020961 76 -100%
1998 94 0.000025556 94 -100%
1999 95 0.000025718 95 -100%
2000 80 0.000021165 80 -100%
2001 108 0.000028851 108 -100%
2002 116 0.00003103 116 -100%
2003 124 0.000032612 124 -100%
2004 141 0.000036902 141 -100%
2005 162 0.000042134 162 -100%
2006 163 0.000041201 163 -100%
2007 208 0.00005203 208 -100%
2008 231 0.000058769 231 -100%
2009 299 0.000078269 299 -100%
2010 313 0.000084692 313 -100%
2011 365 0.000099787 365 -100%
2012 421 0.00011511 421 -100%
2013 436 0.000119594 436 -100%
2014 516 0.00013922 516 -100%
2015 629 0.000169958 629 -100%
2016 639 0.000174176 639 -100%
2017 572 0.000159947 572 -100%
2018 614 0.000174635 614 -100%
2019 553 0.000159323 553 -100%
2020 520 0.000155662 520 -100%
2021 622 0.000183592 622 -100%
2022 490 0.000144836 490 -100%
2023 468 0.000141339 468 -100%
2024 484 0.000145411 484 -100%

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