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How popular is “Sequoia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sequoia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sequoia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sequoia” 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
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 20 0.000006591 14 6 40%
1977 19 0.000005981 19 100%
1978 17 0.000005356 12 5 41%
1979 37 0.000011121 30 7 62%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 100%
1981 27 0.000007805 27 100%
1982 35 0.000009977 30 5 71%
1983 29 0.000008373 24 5 66%
1984 47 0.000013472 47 100%
1985 49 0.000013729 44 5 80%
1986 51 0.000014338 51 100%
1987 74 0.000020524 74 100%
1988 75 0.000020297 75 100%
1989 77 0.000020029 77 100%
1990 93 0.00002353 93 100%
1991 68 0.000017457 68 100%
1992 116 0.000030198 111 5 91%
1993 119 0.000031563 110 9 85%
1994 99 0.00002663 91 8 84%
1995 114 0.000031129 106 8 86%
1996 103 0.000028241 93 10 81%
1997 102 0.000028132 94 8 84%
1998 109 0.000029634 97 12 78%
1999 116 0.000031403 97 19 67%
2000 120 0.000031747 109 11 82%
2001 154 0.000041139 135 19 75%
2002 193 0.000051628 181 12 88%
2003 157 0.000041291 142 15 81%
2004 152 0.000039781 134 18 76%
2005 121 0.000031471 104 17 72%
2006 119 0.000030079 103 16 73%
2007 112 0.000028016 102 10 82%
2008 96 0.000024423 81 15 69%
2009 87 0.000022774 72 15 66%
2010 93 0.000025164 79 14 70%
2011 77 0.000021051 67 10 74%
2012 81 0.000022147 71 10 75%
2013 72 0.000019749 59 13 64%
2014 82 0.000022124 69 13 68%
2015 87 0.000023508 74 13 70%
2016 77 0.000020988 64 13 66%
2017 99 0.000027683 80 19 62%
2018 87 0.000024745 76 11 75%
2019 108 0.000031116 92 16 70%
2020 97 0.000029037 79 18 63%
2021 104 0.000030697 81 23 56%
2022 107 0.000031627 92 15 72%
2023 98 0.000029597 80 18 63%
2024 84 0.000025237 74 10 76%

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