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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Rihanna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Rihanna” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Rihanna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Rihanna” 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
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2005 79 0.000020547 79 100%
2006 572 0.000144584 572 100%
2007 789 0.000197364 789 100%
2008 1080 0.000274763 1075 5 99%
2009 825 0.000215959 825 100%
2010 500 0.000135291 500 100%
2011 381 0.000104161 381 100%
2012 323 0.000088315 323 100%
2013 269 0.000073786 269 100%
2014 208 0.00005612 208 100%
2015 178 0.000048096 178 100%
2016 178 0.000048519 178 100%
2017 162 0.0000453 162 100%
2018 164 0.000046645 164 100%
2019 129 0.000037166 129 100%
2020 144 0.000043106 144 100%
2021 133 0.000039257 133 100%
2022 127 0.000037539 127 100%
2023 165 0.000049831 165 100%
2024 115 0.00003455 115 100%

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