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How popular is “Nobuo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nobuo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nobuo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nobuo” 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
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 -100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 10 0.000004606 10 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 23 0.000009852 23 -100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 -100%
1923 19 0.000008252 19 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 -100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 -100%
1928 19 0.000008404 19 -100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%

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