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How popular is “Nobuko” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nobuko” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nobuko” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nobuko” 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
1915 11 0.000006003 11 100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 100%
1920 22 0.000009723 22 100%
1921 27 0.000011566 27 100%
1922 23 0.000010047 23 100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 100%
1924 33 0.000013856 33 100%
1925 28 0.000012 28 100%
1926 27 0.00001176 27 100%
1927 20 0.000008623 20 100%
1928 17 0.000007519 17 100%
1929 21 0.00000958 21 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 100%

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