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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Selah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Selah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Selah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Selah” 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
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 100%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 16 0.000004108 16 100%
1992 19 0.000004946 19 100%
1993 24 0.000006366 24 100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 100%
1995 40 0.000010923 40 100%
1996 40 0.000010967 40 100%
1997 33 0.000009102 33 100%
1998 53 0.000014409 48 5 81%
1999 107 0.000028967 100 7 87%
2000 124 0.000032805 116 8 87%
2001 124 0.000033125 124 100%
2002 161 0.000043068 154 7 91%
2003 189 0.000049707 179 10 89%
2004 179 0.000046847 179 100%
2005 268 0.000069704 263 5 96%
2006 330 0.000083414 324 6 96%
2007 344 0.00008605 344 100%
2008 385 0.000097948 380 5 97%
2009 426 0.000111513 419 7 97%
2010 468 0.000126632 460 8 97%
2011 517 0.000141342 506 11 96%
2012 580 0.000158584 574 6 98%
2013 552 0.000151413 552 100%
2014 583 0.000157297 577 6 98%
2015 697 0.000188332 690 7 98%
2016 688 0.000187532 688 100%
2017 704 0.000196857 694 10 97%
2018 747 0.000212464 732 15 96%
2019 709 0.000204268 701 8 98%
2020 735 0.000220022 722 13 96%
2021 831 0.000245281 822 9 98%
2022 892 0.000263661 884 8 98%
2023 1036 0.000312878 1024 12 98%
2024 1143 0.000343398 1122 21 96%

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