How popular is “Onyx” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Onyx” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Onyx” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1918	5	0.000002303	5		100%
1985	5	0.000001401	5		100%
1989	8	0.000002081	8		100%
1990	15	0.000003795	9	6	20%
1991	6	0.00000154	6		100%
1992	17	0.000004426	11	6	29%
1993	30	0.000007957	16	14	7%
1994	25	0.000006725	16	9	28%
1995	24	0.000006554	14	10	17%
1996	27	0.000007403	14	13	4%
1997	29	0.000007998	12	17	-17%
1998	31	0.000008428	19	12	23%
1999	15	0.000004061	7	8	-7%
2000	33	0.00000873	12	21	-27%
2001	33	0.000008816	18	15	9%
2002	35	0.000009363	15	20	-14%
2003	29	0.000007627	12	17	-17%
2004	36	0.000009422	10	26	-44%
2005	32	0.000008323	12	20	-25%
2006	48	0.000012133	19	29	-21%
2007	56	0.000014008	25	31	-11%
2008	52	0.000013229	11	41	-58%
2009	84	0.000021989	24	60	-43%
2010	81	0.000021917	22	59	-46%
2011	75	0.000020504	18	57	-52%
2012	112	0.000030623	31	81	-45%
2013	111	0.000030447	33	78	-41%
2014	137	0.000036963	45	92	-34%
2015	159	0.000042962	38	121	-52%
2016	233	0.00006351	58	175	-50%
2017	258	0.000072144	70	188	-46%
2018	333	0.000094713	77	256	-54%
2019	418	0.000120429	95	323	-55%
2020	561	0.000167935	115	446	-59%
2021	941	0.000277749	174	767	-63%
2022	1105	0.00032662	173	932	-69%
2023	1269	0.000383245	192	1077	-70%
2024	1113	0.000334385	186	927	-67%

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