How popular is “Marge” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marge” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marge” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marge” 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	Bias toward female
1889	6	0.000020765	6	100%
1892	6	0.000017944	6	100%
1894	10	0.000029526	10	100%
1895	8	0.000022791	8	100%
1896	7	0.000019581	7	100%
1897	11	0.000031704	11	100%
1898	11	0.000028837	11	100%
1899	8	0.000023583	8	100%
1900	12	0.000026651	12	100%
1901	12	0.000034701	12	100%
1902	13	0.000033615	13	100%
1903	10	0.000026233	10	100%
1904	12	0.000029741	12	100%
1905	12	0.000028307	12	100%
1906	22	0.000051348	22	100%
1907	16	0.00003438	16	100%
1908	23	0.000047069	23	100%
1909	20	0.000039122	20	100%
1910	14	0.0000237	14	100%
1911	23	0.000035699	23	100%
1912	38	0.000038459	38	100%
1913	40	0.000035177	40	100%
1914	49	0.000034596	49	100%
1915	73	0.000039838	73	100%
1916	67	0.000034636	67	100%
1917	90	0.000044849	90	100%
1918	93	0.000042835	93	100%
1919	63	0.000029854	63	100%
1920	94	0.000041544	94	100%
1921	83	0.000035554	83	100%
1922	98	0.000042811	98	100%
1923	74	0.000032139	74	100%
1924	100	0.000041988	100	100%
1925	68	0.000029143	68	100%
1926	76	0.000033102	76	100%
1927	73	0.000031474	73	100%
1928	56	0.000024768	56	100%
1929	61	0.000027826	61	100%
1930	72	0.000032384	72	100%
1931	53	0.000025185	53	100%
1932	63	0.00002984	63	100%
1933	52	0.000026007	52	100%
1934	60	0.00002889	60	100%
1935	65	0.000031102	65	100%
1936	59	0.000028398	59	100%
1937	77	0.000036139	77	100%
1938	101	0.000045648	101	100%
1939	99	0.00004493	99	100%
1940	85	0.000036913	85	100%
1941	114	0.00004679	114	100%
1942	80	0.000029285	80	100%
1943	102	0.000036137	102	100%
1944	77	0.000028624	77	100%
1945	91	0.000034302	91	100%
1946	93	0.000029105	93	100%
1947	84	0.000023318	84	100%
1948	48	0.000013903	48	100%
1949	46	0.0000132	46	100%
1950	33	0.00000942	33	100%
1951	33	0.000008958	33	100%
1952	27	0.000007109	27	100%
1953	44	0.000011418	44	100%
1954	30	0.000007536	30	100%
1955	37	0.000009215	37	100%
1956	34	0.000008246	34	100%
1957	50	0.000011899	50	100%
1958	61	0.000014756	61	100%
1959	57	0.000013709	57	100%
1960	59	0.000014204	59	100%
1961	55	0.000013278	55	100%
1962	59	0.000014621	59	100%
1963	31	0.000007832	31	100%
1964	18	0.00000463	18	100%
1965	21	0.000005792	21	100%
1966	6	0.000001726	6	100%
1967	14	0.000004124	14	100%
1968	12	0.000003552	12	100%
1969	8	0.000002302	8	100%
1970	8	0.000002218	8	100%
1971	9	0.000002622	9	100%
1976	5	0.000001648	5	100%

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