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How popular is “Obi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Obi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Obi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Obi” 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
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 -100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 -100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 -100%
2021 35 0.000010331 35 -100%
2022 37 0.000010937 37 -100%
2023 37 0.000011174 37 -100%
2024 29 0.000008713 29 -100%

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