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How popular is “Noboru” in the USA?

Number of people named “Noboru” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Noboru” by birth year

This chart shows how “Noboru” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1915 21 0.00001146 21 -100%
1916 21 0.000010856 21 -100%
1917 19 0.000009468 19 -100%
1918 29 0.000013357 29 -100%
1919 30 0.000014216 30 -100%
1920 34 0.000015027 34 -100%
1921 34 0.000014564 34 -100%
1922 30 0.000013105 30 -100%
1923 32 0.000013898 32 -100%
1924 30 0.000012597 30 -100%
1925 22 0.000009429 22 -100%
1926 22 0.000009582 22 -100%
1927 25 0.000010779 25 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 -100%
1930 22 0.000009895 22 -100%
1931 18 0.000008554 18 -100%
1932 13 0.000006157 13 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%

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