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How popular is “Rigel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rigel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rigel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rigel” 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 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 15 0.000004355 5 10 -33%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 -100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 -100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 -100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 -100%
1999 10 0.000002707 10 -100%
2000 14 0.000003704 14 -100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 -100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 -100%
2007 16 0.000004002 16 -100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 -100%
2014 22 0.000005936 22 -100%
2015 32 0.000008647 5 27 -69%
2016 34 0.000009268 34 -100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 -100%
2018 34 0.00000967 34 -100%
2019 22 0.000006338 22 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 -100%
2021 23 0.000006789 23 -100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 -100%
2023 22 0.000006644 22 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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