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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Xian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Xian” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Xian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Xian” 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
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 21 0.000005709 9 12 -14%
1999 13 0.000003519 5 8 -23%
2000 22 0.00000582 6 16 -45%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 6 10 -25%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 16 0.000004044 5 11 -38%
2007 13 0.000003252 13 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 8 8 0%
2009 19 0.000004974 8 11 -16%
2010 24 0.000006494 7 17 -42%
2011 19 0.000005194 9 10 -5%
2012 23 0.000006289 5 18 -57%
2013 23 0.000006309 6 17 -48%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 -100%
2015 20 0.000005404 6 14 -40%
2016 11 0.000002998 11 -100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 21 0.00000605 21 -100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 -100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 -100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 -100%
2023 26 0.000007852 26 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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