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How popular is “Sani” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sani” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sani” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sani” 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 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 24 0.000006281 24 100%
2005 32 0.000008323 25 7 56%
2006 30 0.000007583 23 7 53%
2007 39 0.000009756 32 7 64%
2008 32 0.000008141 25 7 56%
2009 33 0.000008638 26 7 58%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2012 21 0.000005742 15 6 43%
2013 21 0.00000576 12 9 14%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 100%
2015 14 0.000003783 9 5 29%
2016 22 0.000005997 14 8 27%
2017 18 0.000005033 12 6 33%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 100%
2019 19 0.000005474 11 8 16%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 100%
2021 16 0.000004723 10 6 25%
2022 18 0.000005321 11 7 22%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 24 0.00000721 10 14 -17%

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