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How popular is “Sonia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sonia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sonia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sonia” 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
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 7 0.000020635 7 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 100%
1907 14 0.000030082 14 100%
1908 16 0.000032743 16 100%
1909 23 0.00004499 23 100%
1910 20 0.000033858 20 100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 100%
1912 37 0.000037447 37 100%
1913 45 0.000039574 45 100%
1914 57 0.000040244 57 100%
1915 61 0.000033289 61 100%
1916 66 0.000034119 66 100%
1917 79 0.000039367 79 100%
1918 104 0.000047902 104 100%
1919 96 0.000045492 96 100%
1920 76 0.000033589 76 100%
1921 79 0.00003384 79 100%
1922 79 0.000034511 79 100%
1923 86 0.000037351 86 100%
1924 97 0.000040729 97 100%
1925 108 0.000046286 108 100%
1926 134 0.000058365 134 100%
1927 218 0.000093992 218 100%
1928 184 0.000081382 184 100%
1929 169 0.000077093 169 100%
1930 166 0.000074664 166 100%
1931 164 0.000077932 164 100%
1932 198 0.000093781 198 100%
1933 212 0.000106029 212 100%
1934 236 0.000113635 236 100%
1935 226 0.000108139 226 100%
1936 251 0.000120814 251 100%
1937 346 0.00016239 346 100%
1938 429 0.000193892 429 100%
1939 282 0.000127982 282 100%
1940 299 0.000129848 299 100%
1941 237 0.000097274 237 100%
1942 249 0.000091148 249 100%
1943 262 0.000092824 262 100%
1944 202 0.000075091 202 100%
1945 233 0.000087828 233 100%
1946 223 0.00006979 223 100%
1947 280 0.000077728 280 100%
1948 273 0.000079073 273 100%
1949 313 0.000089819 313 100%
1950 333 0.000095052 333 100%
1951 396 0.000107499 396 100%
1952 442 0.000116377 442 100%
1953 438 0.000113659 438 100%
1954 537 0.000134901 537 100%
1955 591 0.000147195 591 100%
1956 630 0.0001528 625 5 98%
1957 747 0.000177766 747 100%
1958 839 0.000202956 839 100%
1959 917 0.000220539 917 100%
1960 958 0.000230631 951 7 99%
1961 983 0.000237308 983 100%
1962 1027 0.000254499 1027 100%
1963 1175 0.000296852 1169 6 99%
1964 1221 0.000314075 1221 100%
1965 1253 0.000345612 1253 100%
1966 1539 0.000442794 1529 10 99%
1967 1500 0.00044184 1495 5 99%
1968 1566 0.000463531 1566 100%
1969 1760 0.000506428 1751 9 99%
1970 1777 0.00049272 1767 10 99%
1971 1702 0.000495869 1693 9 99%
1972 1621 0.00051575 1612 9 99%
1973 1609 0.000533331 1600 9 99%
1974 1588 0.000522369 1577 11 99%
1975 1500 0.000496788 1491 9 99%
1976 1565 0.00051577 1554 11 99%
1977 1377 0.000433497 1370 7 99%
1978 1275 0.000401718 1265 10 98%
1979 1287 0.000386835 1276 11 98%
1980 1261 0.00036609 1252 9 99%
1981 1147 0.000331563 1130 17 97%
1982 1061 0.000302455 1048 13 98%
1983 974 0.000281232 959 15 97%
1984 936 0.000268291 928 8 98%
1985 900 0.000252164 890 10 98%
1986 858 0.000241209 858 100%
1987 840 0.00023297 826 14 97%
1988 796 0.000215424 785 11 97%
1989 872 0.000226821 858 14 97%
1990 879 0.000222392 868 11 97%
1991 860 0.000220781 852 8 98%
1992 812 0.000211388 812 100%
1993 814 0.000215899 804 10 98%
1994 711 0.00019125 711 100%
1995 711 0.000194148 711 100%
1996 637 0.000174655 637 100%
1997 647 0.000178446 647 100%
1998 635 0.000172638 635 100%
1999 576 0.000155934 576 100%
2000 532 0.000140744 532 100%
2001 542 0.000144789 542 100%
2002 520 0.000139101 520 100%
2003 498 0.000130973 498 100%
2004 516 0.000135046 516 100%
2005 489 0.000127183 489 100%
2006 481 0.000121582 481 100%
2007 460 0.000115067 460 100%
2008 423 0.000107615 423 100%
2009 425 0.000111251 425 100%
2010 392 0.000106068 392 100%
2011 351 0.00009596 351 100%
2012 328 0.000089682 328 100%
2013 298 0.000081741 298 100%
2014 283 0.000076355 283 100%
2015 246 0.00006647 246 100%
2016 264 0.00007196 264 100%
2017 267 0.00007466 267 100%
2018 240 0.000068261 240 100%
2019 217 0.000062519 217 100%
2020 214 0.000064061 214 100%
2021 191 0.000056376 191 100%
2022 211 0.000062368 211 100%
2023 183 0.000055267 183 100%
2024 168 0.000050473 168 100%

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