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How popular is “Sequoyah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sequoyah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sequoyah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sequoyah” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 7 5 17%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1989 23 0.000005983 17 6 48%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 22 0.000005648 22 100%
1992 17 0.000004426 10 7 18%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 100%
1994 25 0.000006725 12 13 -4%
1995 26 0.0000071 19 7 46%
1996 26 0.000007129 19 7 46%
1997 34 0.000009377 23 11 35%
1998 25 0.000006797 17 8 36%
1999 35 0.000009475 20 15 14%
2000 26 0.000006878 19 7 46%
2001 27 0.000007213 17 10 26%
2002 25 0.000006688 15 10 20%
2003 34 0.000008942 19 15 12%
2004 28 0.000007328 23 5 64%
2005 24 0.000006242 16 8 33%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 9 5 29%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 12 6 33%
2011 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 -100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2022 17 0.000005025 6 11 -29%
2023 16 0.000004832 11 5 38%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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