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How popular is “Syed” in the USA?

Number of people named “Syed” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Syed” by birth year

This chart shows how “Syed” 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
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 -100%
1974 25 0.000008224 25 -100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 -100%
1976 31 0.000010217 31 -100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 -100%
1978 40 0.000012603 40 -100%
1979 42 0.000012624 42 -100%
1980 44 0.000012774 44 -100%
1981 51 0.000014743 51 -100%
1982 49 0.000013968 49 -100%
1983 53 0.000015303 53 -100%
1984 39 0.000011179 39 -100%
1985 62 0.000017371 62 -100%
1986 72 0.000020241 72 -100%
1987 68 0.000018859 68 -100%
1988 82 0.000022192 82 -100%
1989 88 0.00002289 88 -100%
1990 90 0.000022771 90 -100%
1991 113 0.00002901 113 -100%
1992 116 0.000030198 116 -100%
1993 123 0.000032624 123 -100%
1994 138 0.00003712 6 132 -91%
1995 157 0.000042871 157 -100%
1996 133 0.000036466 133 -100%
1997 155 0.00004275 155 -100%
1998 140 0.000038062 140 -100%
1999 157 0.000042503 157 -100%
2000 224 0.000059261 224 -100%
2001 167 0.000044612 167 -100%
2002 168 0.00004494 168 -100%
2003 178 0.000046814 178 -100%
2004 146 0.000038211 5 141 -93%
2005 135 0.000035112 135 -100%
2006 141 0.00003564 141 -100%
2007 156 0.000039023 156 -100%
2008 156 0.000039688 156 -100%
2009 137 0.000035862 137 -100%
2010 147 0.000039776 147 -100%
2011 130 0.000035541 130 -100%
2012 140 0.000038279 140 -100%
2013 156 0.000042791 156 -100%
2014 139 0.000037503 139 -100%
2015 160 0.000043233 160 -100%
2016 157 0.000042794 157 -100%
2017 148 0.000041385 148 -100%
2018 137 0.000038966 137 -100%
2019 126 0.000036301 126 -100%
2020 134 0.000040113 134 -100%
2021 127 0.000037486 127 -100%
2022 141 0.000041677 141 -100%
2023 144 0.000043489 144 -100%
2024 104 0.000031245 104 -100%

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