How popular is “Persia” in the USA?

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

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

This chart shows how “Persia” 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	Bias toward female
1975	5	0.000001656	5	100%
1978	5	0.000001575	5	100%
1984	10	0.000002866	10	100%
1986	5	0.000001406	5	100%
1989	8	0.000002081	8	100%
1990	5	0.000001265	5	100%
1991	6	0.00000154	6	100%
1993	7	0.000001857	7	100%
1994	6	0.000001614	6	100%
1995	8	0.000002185	8	100%
1996	9	0.000002468	9	100%
1997	10	0.000002758	10	100%
1998	14	0.000003806	14	100%
1999	11	0.000002978	11	100%
2000	17	0.000004497	17	100%
2001	17	0.000004541	17	100%
2002	19	0.000005083	19	100%
2003	16	0.000004208	16	100%
2004	32	0.000008375	32	100%
2005	61	0.000015865	61	100%
2006	62	0.000015672	62	100%
2007	73	0.000018261	73	100%
2008	49	0.000012466	49	100%
2009	31	0.000008115	31	100%
2010	39	0.000010553	39	100%
2011	38	0.000010389	38	100%
2012	33	0.000009023	33	100%
2013	29	0.000007955	29	100%
2014	21	0.000005666	21	100%
2015	23	0.000006215	23	100%
2016	22	0.000005997	22	100%
2017	18	0.000005033	18	100%
2018	13	0.000003697	13	100%
2019	12	0.000003457	12	100%
2020	20	0.000005987	20	100%
2021	7	0.000002066	7	100%
2022	7	0.000002069	7	100%
2023	7	0.000002114	7	100%

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