How popular is “Xena” in the USA?

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

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

This chart shows how “Xena” 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	Bias toward female
1992	5	0.000001302	5	100%
1993	5	0.000001326	5	100%
1994	10	0.00000269	10	100%
1995	73	0.000019934	73	100%
1996	279	0.000076497	279	100%
1997	275	0.000075846	275	100%
1998	173	0.000047034	173	100%
1999	104	0.000028155	104	100%
2000	75	0.000019842	75	100%
2001	50	0.000013357	50	100%
2002	38	0.000010165	38	100%
2003	38	0.000009994	38	100%
2004	16	0.000004187	16	100%
2005	20	0.000005202	20	100%
2006	32	0.000008089	32	100%
2007	30	0.000007504	30	100%
2008	22	0.000005597	22	100%
2009	29	0.000007591	29	100%
2010	34	0.0000092	34	100%
2011	33	0.000009022	33	100%
2012	52	0.000014218	52	100%
2013	69	0.000018927	69	100%
2014	73	0.000019696	73	100%
2015	95	0.000025669	95	100%
2016	111	0.000030256	111	100%
2017	157	0.000043901	157	100%
2018	173	0.000049205	173	100%
2019	193	0.000055605	193	100%
2020	214	0.000064061	214	100%
2021	191	0.000056376	191	100%
2022	250	0.000073896	250	100%
2023	234	0.000070669	234	100%
2024	178	0.000053478	178	100%

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