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How popular is “Oskar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Oskar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Oskar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Oskar” 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
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 -100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 -100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 -100%
1993 25 0.000006631 25 -100%
1994 26 0.000006994 26 -100%
1995 26 0.0000071 26 -100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 -100%
1997 27 0.000007447 27 -100%
1998 38 0.000010331 38 -100%
1999 35 0.000009475 35 -100%
2000 39 0.000010318 39 -100%
2001 56 0.00001496 56 -100%
2002 69 0.000018458 69 -100%
2003 61 0.000016043 61 -100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 81 0.000021067 81 -100%
2006 113 0.000028563 113 -100%
2007 96 0.000024014 96 -100%
2008 95 0.000024169 95 -100%
2009 137 0.000035862 137 -100%
2010 130 0.000035176 130 -100%
2011 122 0.000033353 122 -100%
2012 136 0.000037185 136 -100%
2013 132 0.000036207 132 -100%
2014 134 0.000036154 134 -100%
2015 112 0.000030263 112 -100%
2016 160 0.000043612 160 -100%
2017 128 0.000035792 128 -100%
2018 134 0.000038113 134 -100%
2019 130 0.000037454 130 -100%
2020 144 0.000043106 144 -100%
2021 122 0.00003601 122 -100%
2022 136 0.000040199 136 -100%
2023 125 0.000037751 125 -100%
2024 96 0.000028842 96 -100%

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