How popular is “Melania” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melania” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melania” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melania” 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
1913	8	0.000007035	8	100%
1914	8	0.000005648	8	100%
1915	9	0.000004912	9	100%
1916	8	0.000004136	8	100%
1917	12	0.00000598	12	100%
1918	9	0.000004145	9	100%
1919	5	0.000002369	5	100%
1920	6	0.000002652	6	100%
1921	9	0.000003855	9	100%
1922	6	0.000002621	6	100%
1924	10	0.000004199	10	100%
1926	7	0.000003049	7	100%
1927	9	0.00000388	9	100%
1928	5	0.000002211	5	100%
1929	8	0.000003649	8	100%
1931	5	0.000002376	5	100%
1939	6	0.000002723	6	100%
1940	6	0.000002606	6	100%
1951	9	0.000002443	9	100%
1952	6	0.00000158	6	100%
1957	11	0.000002618	11	100%
1959	8	0.000001924	8	100%
1960	6	0.000001444	6	100%
1961	6	0.000001448	6	100%
1962	7	0.000001735	7	100%
1963	8	0.000002021	8	100%
1964	11	0.00000283	11	100%
1965	10	0.000002758	10	100%
1966	12	0.000003453	12	100%
1967	9	0.000002651	9	100%
1968	8	0.000002368	8	100%
1969	11	0.000003165	11	100%
1970	10	0.000002773	10	100%
1971	9	0.000002622	9	100%
1972	11	0.0000035	11	100%
1973	11	0.000003646	11	100%
1974	15	0.000004934	15	100%
1975	14	0.000004637	14	100%
1976	12	0.000003955	12	100%
1977	9	0.000002833	9	100%
1978	18	0.000005671	18	100%
1979	10	0.000003006	10	100%
1980	18	0.000005226	18	100%
1981	18	0.000005203	18	100%
1982	12	0.000003421	12	100%
1983	9	0.000002599	9	100%
1984	10	0.000002866	10	100%
1985	21	0.000005884	21	100%
1986	9	0.00000253	9	100%
1987	13	0.000003605	13	100%
1988	15	0.000004059	15	100%
1989	9	0.000002341	9	100%
1990	19	0.000004807	19	100%
1991	19	0.000004878	19	100%
1992	15	0.000003905	15	100%
1993	11	0.000002918	11	100%
1994	16	0.000004304	16	100%
1995	12	0.000003277	12	100%
1996	20	0.000005484	20	100%
1997	13	0.000003585	13	100%
1998	13	0.000003534	13	100%
1999	13	0.000003519	13	100%
2000	16	0.000004233	16	100%
2001	19	0.000005076	19	100%
2002	14	0.000003745	14	100%
2003	9	0.000002367	9	100%
2004	30	0.000007852	30	100%
2005	124	0.000032251	124	100%
2006	128	0.000032354	128	100%
2007	79	0.000019761	79	100%
2008	80	0.000020353	80	100%
2009	72	0.000018847	72	100%
2010	82	0.000022188	82	100%
2011	99	0.000027066	99	100%
2012	100	0.000027342	100	100%
2013	97	0.000026607	97	100%
2014	78	0.000021045	78	100%
2015	92	0.000024859	92	100%
2016	131	0.000035707	131	100%
2017	283	0.000079134	283	100%
2018	233	0.00006627	233	100%
2019	210	0.000060502	210	100%
2020	192	0.000057475	192	100%
2021	154	0.000045455	154	100%
2022	145	0.00004286	145	100%
2023	113	0.000034127	113	100%
2024	130	0.000039057	130	100%

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