Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Uma” in the USA?

Number of people named “Uma” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Uma” by birth year

This chart shows how “Uma” 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
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 25 0.000006855 25 100%
1997 30 0.000008274 30 100%
1998 33 0.000008972 33 100%
1999 28 0.00000758 28 100%
2000 55 0.000014551 55 100%
2001 38 0.000010151 38 100%
2002 35 0.000009363 35 100%
2003 48 0.000012624 48 100%
2004 57 0.000014918 57 100%
2005 65 0.000016906 65 100%
2006 81 0.000020474 81 100%
2007 70 0.00001751 70 100%
2008 50 0.00001272 50 100%
2009 60 0.000015706 60 100%
2010 60 0.000016235 60 100%
2011 61 0.000016677 61 100%
2012 77 0.000021053 77 100%
2013 57 0.000015635 57 100%
2014 78 0.000021045 78 100%
2015 66 0.000017833 66 100%
2016 69 0.000018808 69 100%
2017 73 0.000020413 73 100%
2018 69 0.000019625 69 100%
2019 71 0.000020456 71 100%
2020 70 0.000020954 70 100%
2021 70 0.000020661 70 100%
2022 73 0.000021578 73 100%
2023 72 0.000021744 72 100%
2024 63 0.000018927 63 100%

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