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How popular is “Nima” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nima” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nima” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nima” 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
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 17 0.000005356 17 -100%
1979 25 0.000007514 25 -100%
1980 25 0.000007258 5 20 -60%
1981 31 0.000008961 12 19 -23%
1982 38 0.000010833 38 -100%
1983 31 0.000008951 9 22 -42%
1984 38 0.000010892 10 28 -47%
1985 37 0.000010367 7 30 -62%
1986 31 0.000008715 31 -100%
1987 43 0.000011926 6 37 -72%
1988 38 0.000010284 38 -100%
1989 35 0.000009104 6 29 -66%
1990 47 0.000011891 6 41 -74%
1991 36 0.000009242 36 -100%
1992 51 0.000013277 10 41 -61%
1993 31 0.000008222 31 -100%
1994 21 0.000005649 7 14 -33%
1995 34 0.000009284 6 28 -65%
1996 23 0.000006306 23 -100%
1997 37 0.000010205 6 31 -68%
1998 38 0.000010331 6 32 -68%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 -100%
2000 31 0.000008201 31 -100%
2001 38 0.000010151 6 32 -68%
2002 38 0.000010165 8 30 -58%
2003 32 0.000008416 9 23 -44%
2004 23 0.000006019 7 16 -39%
2005 20 0.000005202 7 13 -30%
2006 33 0.000008341 13 20 -21%
2007 20 0.000005003 8 12 -20%
2008 20 0.000005088 10 10 0%
2009 18 0.000004712 5 13 -44%
2010 16 0.000004329 8 8 0%
2011 20 0.000005468 9 11 -10%
2012 17 0.000004648 9 8 6%
2013 23 0.000006309 16 7 39%
2014 24 0.000006475 15 9 25%
2015 21 0.000005674 14 7 33%
2016 22 0.000005997 12 10 9%
2017 21 0.000005872 9 12 -14%
2018 24 0.000006826 15 9 25%
2019 20 0.000005762 7 13 -30%
2020 30 0.00000898 15 15 0%
2021 24 0.000007084 9 15 -25%
2022 22 0.000006503 11 11 0%
2023 28 0.000008456 12 16 -14%
2024 23 0.00000691 9 14 -22%

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