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How popular is “Sonya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sonya” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sonya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sonya” 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
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 100%
1911 10 0.000015521 10 100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1913 27 0.000023744 27 100%
1914 21 0.000014827 21 100%
1915 20 0.000010914 20 100%
1916 37 0.000019127 37 100%
1917 27 0.000013455 27 100%
1918 34 0.00001566 34 100%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 100%
1920 27 0.000011933 27 100%
1921 31 0.000013279 31 100%
1922 19 0.0000083 19 100%
1923 31 0.000013464 31 100%
1924 26 0.000010917 26 100%
1925 34 0.000014572 34 100%
1926 43 0.000018729 43 100%
1927 69 0.00002975 69 100%
1928 83 0.00003671 83 100%
1929 53 0.000024177 53 100%
1930 72 0.000032384 72 100%
1931 72 0.000034214 72 100%
1932 118 0.00005589 118 100%
1933 140 0.000070019 140 100%
1934 183 0.000088116 183 100%
1935 190 0.000090913 190 100%
1936 195 0.000093859 195 100%
1937 229 0.000107478 229 100%
1938 245 0.000110731 245 100%
1939 211 0.000095759 211 100%
1940 197 0.000085552 197 100%
1941 179 0.000073468 179 100%
1942 212 0.000077604 212 100%
1943 170 0.000060229 170 100%
1944 150 0.00005576 150 100%
1945 165 0.000062196 165 100%
1946 164 0.000051325 164 100%
1947 164 0.000045526 164 100%
1948 195 0.000056481 195 100%
1949 163 0.000046775 163 100%
1950 206 0.000058801 206 100%
1951 189 0.000051307 189 100%
1952 278 0.000073196 278 100%
1953 311 0.000080703 311 100%
1954 311 0.000078127 311 100%
1955 340 0.000084681 340 100%
1956 394 0.000095561 394 100%
1957 396 0.000094238 396 100%
1958 461 0.000111517 461 100%
1959 778 0.00018711 778 100%
1960 1275 0.000306947 1275 100%
1961 1540 0.000371774 1540 100%
1962 1748 0.000433169 1741 7 99%
1963 1925 0.000486332 1920 5 99%
1964 2006 0.000515999 1998 8 99%
1965 2360 0.000650954 2352 8 99%
1966 2875 0.000827182 2867 8 99%
1967 2987 0.00087985 2980 7 100%
1968 2828 0.000837079 2817 11 99%
1969 2807 0.000807695 2799 8 99%
1970 2755 0.000763896 2740 15 99%
1971 2748 0.000800617 2730 18 99%
1972 2515 0.000800192 2506 9 99%
1973 2182 0.000723262 2169 13 99%
1974 2123 0.000698355 2111 12 99%
1975 1765 0.000584554 1760 5 99%
1976 1525 0.000502587 1520 5 99%
1977 1393 0.000438534 1382 11 98%
1978 1265 0.000398567 1265 100%
1979 1289 0.000387436 1289 100%
1980 1212 0.000351865 1207 5 99%
1981 1142 0.000330117 1136 6 99%
1982 1014 0.000289057 1008 6 99%
1983 922 0.000266217 917 5 99%
1984 855 0.000245073 855 100%
1985 798 0.000223585 798 100%
1986 735 0.00020663 735 100%
1987 623 0.000172786 618 5 98%
1988 637 0.000172393 632 5 98%
1989 525 0.000136561 525 100%
1990 470 0.000118913 470 100%
1991 394 0.000101148 394 100%
1992 386 0.000100488 386 100%
1993 380 0.000100788 380 100%
1994 306 0.00008231 306 100%
1995 310 0.00008465 310 100%
1996 289 0.000079239 289 100%
1997 297 0.000081914 297 100%
1998 275 0.000074765 275 100%
1999 278 0.00007526 278 100%
2000 247 0.000065346 247 100%
2001 210 0.000056099 210 100%
2002 248 0.00006634 248 100%
2003 238 0.000062593 238 100%
2004 222 0.000058101 222 100%
2005 214 0.000055659 214 100%
2006 255 0.000064456 255 100%
2007 223 0.000055782 223 100%
2008 201 0.000051136 201 100%
2009 221 0.000057851 221 100%
2010 194 0.000052493 194 100%
2011 170 0.000046476 170 100%
2012 195 0.000053317 195 100%
2013 190 0.000052117 190 100%
2014 161 0.000043439 161 100%
2015 164 0.000044313 164 100%
2016 137 0.000037343 137 100%
2017 135 0.00003775 135 100%
2018 123 0.000034984 123 100%
2019 99 0.000028523 99 100%
2020 110 0.000032928 110 100%
2021 99 0.000029221 99 100%
2022 114 0.000033697 114 100%
2023 107 0.000032315 107 100%
2024 104 0.000031245 104 100%

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