How popular is “Pa” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Pa” 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 “Pa” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Pa” 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
1979	10	0.000003006	10		100%
1980	31	0.000009	31		100%
1981	34	0.000009828	34		100%
1982	43	0.000012258	43		100%
1983	49	0.000014148	49		100%
1984	55	0.000015765	55		100%
1985	43	0.000012048	43		100%
1986	61	0.000017149	61		100%
1987	57	0.000015809	57		100%
1988	72	0.000019486	72		100%
1989	90	0.00002341	90		100%
1990	96	0.000024289	91	5	90%
1991	96	0.000024645	96		100%
1992	103	0.000026814	103		100%
1993	85	0.000022545	85		100%
1994	89	0.00002394	89		100%
1995	75	0.00002048	75		100%
1996	57	0.000015628	57		100%
1997	50	0.00001379	50		100%
1998	36	0.000009787	36		100%
1999	28	0.00000758	28		100%
2000	22	0.00000582	22		100%
2001	19	0.000005076	19		100%
2002	12	0.00000321	12		100%
2003	7	0.000001841	7		100%
2004	7	0.000001832	7		100%
2005	11	0.000002861	11		100%
2006	5	0.000001264	5		100%

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