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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Seraphim” in the USA?

Number of people named “Seraphim” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Seraphim” by birth year

This chart shows how “Seraphim” 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
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 100%
2003 12 0.000003156 12 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 100%
2010 14 0.000003788 6 8 -14%
2011 17 0.000004648 11 6 29%
2012 18 0.000004922 12 6 33%
2013 14 0.00000384 5 9 -29%
2014 23 0.000006206 14 9 22%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 7 6 8%
2018 21 0.000005973 13 8 24%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 15 0.000004427 9 6 20%
2022 18 0.000005321 7 11 -22%
2023 10 0.00000302 10 -100%
2024 17 0.000005107 9 8 6%

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