How popular is “Vega” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Vega” 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 “Vega” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Vega” 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
1918	5	0.000002303	5		100%
1957	6	0.000001428	6		100%
1979	5	0.000001503	5		100%
1999	9	0.000002436	9		100%
2000	6	0.000001587	6		100%
2001	12	0.000003206	12		100%
2002	12	0.00000321	12		100%
2003	12	0.000003156	12		100%
2004	15	0.000003926	15		100%
2005	19	0.000004942	19		100%
2006	26	0.000006572	26		100%
2007	34	0.000008505	24	10	41%
2008	23	0.000005851	16	7	39%
2009	29	0.000007591	24	5	66%
2010	35	0.00000947	28	7	60%
2011	22	0.000006015	22		100%
2012	33	0.000009023	23	10	39%
2013	36	0.000009875	28	8	56%
2014	32	0.000008634	22	10	38%
2015	48	0.00001297	35	13	46%
2016	45	0.000012266	35	10	56%
2017	54	0.0000151	40	14	48%
2018	62	0.000017634	48	14	55%
2019	63	0.000018151	52	11	65%
2020	41	0.000012273	28	13	37%
2021	50	0.000014758	39	11	56%
2022	54	0.000015962	40	14	48%
2023	60	0.00001812	46	14	53%
2024	45	0.00001352	38	7	69%

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