Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Somaya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Somaya” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Somaya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Somaya” 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
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2004 10 0.000002617 10 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 21 0.000005682 21 100%
2011 198 0.000054131 198 100%
2012 207 0.000056598 207 100%
2013 65 0.000017829 65 100%
2014 65 0.000017537 65 100%
2015 35 0.000009457 35 100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 100%
2017 37 0.000010346 37 100%
2018 33 0.000009386 33 100%
2019 35 0.000010084 35 100%
2020 28 0.000008382 28 100%
2021 24 0.000007084 24 100%
2022 27 0.000007981 27 100%
2023 24 0.000007248 24 100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 100%

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