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How popular is “Nyssa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Nyssa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Nyssa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Nyssa” 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
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 100%
1983 22 0.000006352 22 100%
1984 52 0.000014905 52 100%
1985 59 0.000016531 59 100%
1986 52 0.000014619 52 100%
1987 57 0.000015809 57 100%
1988 48 0.00001299 48 100%
1989 56 0.000014566 56 100%
1990 46 0.000011638 46 100%
1991 53 0.000013606 53 100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 100%
1993 42 0.00001114 42 100%
1994 43 0.000011566 43 100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 100%
1996 38 0.000010419 38 100%
1997 43 0.00001186 43 100%
1998 40 0.000010875 40 100%
1999 22 0.000005956 22 100%
2000 41 0.000010847 41 100%
2001 35 0.00000935 35 100%
2002 73 0.000019528 73 100%
2003 110 0.00002893 110 100%
2004 76 0.00001989 76 100%
2005 65 0.000016906 65 100%
2006 58 0.000014661 58 100%
2007 45 0.000011257 45 100%
2008 40 0.000010176 40 100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 100%
2011 29 0.000007928 29 100%
2012 26 0.000007109 26 100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 24 0.000006485 24 100%
2016 40 0.000010903 40 100%
2017 36 0.000010067 36 100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 100%
2019 26 0.000007491 26 100%
2020 23 0.000006885 23 100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 100%
2024 12 0.000003605 12 100%

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