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How popular is “Psalm” in the USA?

Number of people named “Psalm” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Psalm” by birth year

This chart shows how “Psalm” 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
1999 10 0.000002707 5 5 0%
2000 10 0.000002646 5 5 0%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 14 0.000003664 7 7 0%
2007 13 0.000003252 6 7 -8%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2009 14 0.000003665 7 7 0%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2013 18 0.000004937 9 9 0%
2014 16 0.000004317 5 11 -38%
2015 17 0.000004593 11 6 29%
2016 13 0.000003543 5 8 -23%
2017 16 0.000004474 11 5 38%
2018 15 0.000004266 8 7 7%
2019 23 0.000006626 7 16 -39%
2020 56 0.000016764 17 39 -39%
2021 79 0.000023318 18 61 -54%
2022 102 0.00003015 26 76 -49%
2023 162 0.000048925 41 121 -49%
2024 235 0.000070602 58 177 -51%

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