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How popular is “Zain” in the USA?

Number of people named “Zain” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Zain” by birth year

This chart shows how “Zain” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 22 0.000006185 22 -100%
1987 24 0.000006656 24 -100%
1988 31 0.00000839 31 -100%
1989 26 0.000006763 26 -100%
1990 55 0.000013915 6 49 -78%
1991 43 0.000011039 43 -100%
1992 54 0.000014058 54 -100%
1993 42 0.00001114 5 37 -76%
1994 65 0.000017484 5 60 -85%
1995 81 0.000022118 6 75 -85%
1996 81 0.000022209 81 -100%
1997 102 0.000028132 8 94 -84%
1998 130 0.000035343 130 -100%
1999 147 0.000039796 8 139 -89%
2000 135 0.000035715 135 -100%
2001 176 0.000047016 7 169 -92%
2002 188 0.00005029 14 174 -85%
2003 194 0.000051021 5 189 -95%
2004 215 0.000056269 215 -100%
2005 223 0.000058 8 215 -93%
2006 233 0.000058895 5 228 -96%
2007 245 0.000061286 7 238 -94%
2008 281 0.000071489 8 273 -94%
2009 305 0.000079839 10 295 -93%
2010 293 0.00007928 14 279 -90%
2011 313 0.000085571 5 308 -97%
2012 342 0.00009351 12 330 -93%
2013 384 0.000105331 20 364 -90%
2014 394 0.000106303 21 373 -89%
2015 361 0.000097544 15 346 -92%
2016 388 0.00010576 21 367 -89%
2017 409 0.000114367 10 399 -95%
2018 486 0.000138229 20 466 -92%
2019 550 0.000158459 24 526 -91%
2020 497 0.000148777 12 485 -95%
2021 485 0.000143154 9 476 -96%
2022 548 0.00016198 13 535 -95%
2023 539 0.000162781 7 532 -97%
2024 544 0.000163437 12 532 -96%

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