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How popular is “Nilsa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nilsa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nilsa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nilsa” 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
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 100%
1951 25 0.000006787 25 100%
1952 20 0.000005266 20 100%
1953 43 0.000011158 43 100%
1954 44 0.000011053 44 100%
1955 39 0.000009713 39 100%
1956 43 0.000010429 43 100%
1957 62 0.000014754 62 100%
1958 56 0.000013547 56 100%
1959 70 0.000016835 70 100%
1960 76 0.000018296 76 100%
1961 63 0.000015209 63 100%
1962 69 0.000017099 69 100%
1963 66 0.000016674 66 100%
1964 52 0.000013376 52 100%
1965 56 0.000015446 56 100%
1966 61 0.000017551 61 100%
1967 60 0.000017674 60 100%
1968 47 0.000013912 47 100%
1969 56 0.000016114 56 100%
1970 44 0.0000122 44 100%
1971 48 0.000013985 48 100%
1972 45 0.000014318 45 100%
1973 35 0.000011601 35 100%
1974 28 0.000009211 28 100%
1975 28 0.000009273 28 100%
1976 27 0.000008898 27 100%
1977 36 0.000011333 36 100%
1978 26 0.000008192 26 100%
1979 32 0.000009618 32 100%
1980 28 0.000008129 28 100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 100%
1983 22 0.000006352 22 100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 100%
1986 18 0.00000506 18 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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