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How popular is “Marcelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marcelyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marcelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marcelyn” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1927 27 0.000011641 27 100%
1928 33 0.000014596 33 100%
1929 27 0.000012317 27 100%
1930 23 0.000010345 23 100%
1931 23 0.00001093 23 100%
1932 19 0.000008999 19 100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 100%
1938 7 0.000003164 7 100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1941 8 0.000003283 8 100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 100%
1948 17 0.000004924 17 100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 19 0.000004773 19 100%
1955 16 0.000003985 16 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%

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