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How popular is “Semaj” in the USA?

Number of people named “Semaj” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Semaj” by birth year

This chart shows how “Semaj” 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
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 5 12 -41%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 5 8 -23%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 -100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 -100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 21 0.000005986 5 16 -52%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 -100%
1986 23 0.000006466 6 17 -48%
1987 18 0.000004992 5 13 -44%
1988 22 0.000005954 6 16 -45%
1989 53 0.000013786 8 45 -70%
1990 68 0.000017204 9 59 -74%
1991 58 0.00001489 18 40 -38%
1992 71 0.000018483 19 52 -46%
1993 97 0.000025728 24 73 -51%
1994 86 0.000023133 20 66 -53%
1995 106 0.000028945 29 77 -45%
1996 135 0.000037015 32 103 -53%
1997 114 0.000031442 27 87 -53%
1998 165 0.000044859 43 122 -48%
1999 192 0.000051978 36 156 -63%
2000 195 0.000051589 53 142 -46%
2001 313 0.000083614 65 248 -58%
2002 297 0.000079448 67 230 -55%
2003 312 0.000082055 82 230 -47%
2004 332 0.00008689 78 254 -53%
2005 391 0.000101695 98 293 -50%
2006 416 0.000105152 97 319 -53%
2007 422 0.000105561 112 310 -47%
2008 447 0.000113721 109 338 -51%
2009 495 0.000129575 133 362 -46%
2010 467 0.000126362 113 354 -52%
2011 469 0.000128219 95 374 -59%
2012 387 0.000105814 92 295 -52%
2013 310 0.000085032 59 251 -62%
2014 278 0.000075006 57 221 -59%
2015 259 0.000069983 58 201 -55%
2016 246 0.000067054 55 191 -55%
2017 255 0.000071305 60 195 -53%
2018 224 0.000063711 41 183 -63%
2019 225 0.000064824 40 185 -64%
2020 195 0.000058373 26 169 -73%
2021 208 0.000061394 37 171 -64%
2022 199 0.000058821 40 159 -60%
2023 286 0.000086374 29 257 -80%
2024 222 0.000066697 18 204 -84%

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