How popular is “Unique” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Unique” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Unique” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1972	6	0.000001909	6		100%
1974	5	0.000001645	5		100%
1975	14	0.000004637	14		100%
1976	20	0.000006591	15	5	50%
1977	37	0.000011648	37		100%
1978	36	0.000011343	29	7	61%
1979	60	0.000018034	60		100%
1980	58	0.000016838	51	7	76%
1981	52	0.000015032	52		100%
1982	47	0.000013398	38	9	62%
1983	64	0.000018479	56	8	75%
1984	68	0.000019491	60	8	76%
1985	75	0.000021014	75		100%
1986	85	0.000023896	80	5	88%
1987	105	0.000029121	93	12	77%
1988	117	0.000031664	103	14	76%
1989	164	0.000042659	137	27	67%
1990	131	0.000033144	123	8	88%
1991	160	0.000041076	144	16	80%
1992	209	0.000054409	179	30	71%
1993	203	0.000053842	185	18	82%
1994	196	0.000052721	172	24	76%
1995	238	0.000064989	215	23	81%
1996	295	0.000080884	264	31	79%
1997	288	0.000079432	253	35	76%
1998	277	0.000075308	245	32	77%
1999	294	0.000079591	259	35	76%
2000	285	0.000075399	248	37	74%
2001	309	0.000082545	272	37	76%
2002	281	0.000075168	243	38	73%
2003	253	0.000066538	221	32	75%
2004	266	0.000069617	234	32	76%
2005	289	0.000075166	268	21	85%
2006	269	0.000067995	239	30	78%
2007	250	0.000062536	226	24	81%
2008	254	0.00006462	233	21	83%
2009	310	0.000081148	292	18	88%
2010	247	0.000066834	230	17	86%
2011	236	0.00006452	221	15	87%
2012	223	0.000060973	213	10	91%
2013	164	0.000044985	147	17	79%
2014	167	0.000045057	151	16	81%
2015	152	0.000041071	141	11	86%
2016	129	0.000035162	119	10	84%
2017	138	0.000038588	127	11	84%
2018	123	0.000034984	113	10	84%
2019	128	0.000036878	114	14	78%
2020	132	0.000039514	121	11	83%
2021	139	0.000041028	125	14	80%
2022	125	0.000036948	101	24	62%
2023	137	0.000041375	104	33	52%
2024	136	0.000040859	86	50	26%

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