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How popular is “Sunni” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sunni” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sunni” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sunni” 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
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 100%
1969 26 0.000007481 26 100%
1970 20 0.000005546 20 100%
1971 41 0.000011945 41 100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 100%
1973 22 0.000007292 22 100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 100%
1975 49 0.000016228 49 100%
1976 70 0.00002307 70 100%
1977 38 0.000011963 38 100%
1978 36 0.000011343 36 100%
1979 51 0.000015329 46 5 80%
1980 69 0.000020032 69 100%
1981 62 0.000017922 62 100%
1982 58 0.000016534 58 100%
1983 42 0.000012127 42 100%
1984 46 0.000013185 46 100%
1985 36 0.000010087 36 100%
1986 58 0.000016306 58 100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 100%
1988 60 0.000016238 60 100%
1989 52 0.000013526 52 100%
1990 37 0.000009361 37 100%
1991 37 0.000009499 37 100%
1992 38 0.000009893 32 6 68%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 100%
1995 25 0.000006827 25 100%
1996 32 0.000008774 32 100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 100%
1998 24 0.000006525 24 100%
1999 30 0.000008122 30 100%
2000 42 0.000011111 42 100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 100%
2004 23 0.000006019 23 100%
2005 25 0.000006502 25 100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 29 0.000007847 29 100%
2011 32 0.000008748 32 100%
2012 32 0.000008749 32 100%
2013 36 0.000009875 36 100%
2014 30 0.000008094 30 100%
2015 38 0.000010268 38 100%
2016 29 0.000007905 29 100%
2017 33 0.000009228 33 100%
2018 47 0.000013368 42 5 79%
2019 61 0.000017575 61 100%
2020 76 0.000022751 70 6 84%
2021 68 0.000020071 56 12 65%
2022 108 0.000031923 96 12 78%
2023 105 0.000031711 100 5 90%
2024 134 0.000040258 123 11 84%

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