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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Nisha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nisha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nisha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nisha” 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
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 100%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1970 24 0.000006655 24 100%
1971 25 0.000007284 25 100%
1972 27 0.000008591 27 100%
1973 40 0.000013259 40 100%
1974 46 0.000015132 46 100%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 100%
1976 59 0.000019444 59 100%
1977 69 0.000021722 69 100%
1978 60 0.000018904 60 100%
1979 65 0.000019537 65 100%
1980 68 0.000019742 68 100%
1981 76 0.000021969 76 100%
1982 82 0.000023375 82 100%
1983 96 0.000027719 96 100%
1984 104 0.00002981 104 100%
1985 89 0.000024936 89 100%
1986 83 0.000023334 83 100%
1987 73 0.000020246 73 100%
1988 88 0.000023816 88 100%
1989 87 0.00002263 87 100%
1990 89 0.000022518 89 100%
1991 74 0.000018997 74 100%
1992 97 0.000025252 97 100%
1993 80 0.000021219 80 100%
1994 80 0.000021519 80 100%
1995 82 0.000022391 82 100%
1996 79 0.00002166 79 100%
1997 77 0.000021237 77 100%
1998 80 0.00002175 80 100%
1999 65 0.000017597 65 100%
2000 67 0.000017725 67 100%
2001 72 0.000019234 72 100%
2002 68 0.00001819 68 100%
2003 49 0.000012887 49 100%
2004 47 0.000012301 47 100%
2005 43 0.000011184 43 100%
2006 40 0.000010111 40 100%
2007 58 0.000014508 58 100%
2008 42 0.000010685 42 100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 35 0.00000947 35 100%
2011 28 0.000007655 28 100%
2012 27 0.000007382 27 100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 100%
2016 17 0.000004634 17 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 100%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 12 0.000003542 12 100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 100%
2024 18 0.000005408 18 100%

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