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How popular is “Phi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Phi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Phi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Phi” 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
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 10 0.000003006 10 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 23 0.000006649 5 18 -57%
1982 22 0.000006271 6 16 -45%
1983 21 0.000006064 5 16 -52%
1984 21 0.000006019 5 16 -52%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 -100%
1986 23 0.000006466 23 -100%
1987 23 0.000006379 23 -100%
1988 17 0.000004601 17 -100%
1989 17 0.000004422 5 12 -41%
1990 25 0.000006325 6 19 -52%
1991 25 0.000006418 25 -100%
1992 26 0.000006769 26 -100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 -100%
1994 20 0.00000538 20 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 26 0.000007129 8 18 -38%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 11 0.000002799 11 -100%
2009 14 0.000003665 5 9 -29%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%

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