How popular is “Melanie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melanie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melanie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melanie” 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
1886	8	0.000031334	8		100%
1887	6	0.000024253	6		100%
1889	7	0.000024226	7		100%
1891	6	0.00002093	6		100%
1892	8	0.000023925	8		100%
1893	5	0.000015374	5		100%
1894	10	0.000029526	10		100%
1895	7	0.000019942	7		100%
1897	7	0.000020175	7		100%
1898	11	0.000028837	11		100%
1899	9	0.00002653	9		100%
1900	13	0.000028872	13		100%
1901	6	0.00001735	6		100%
1903	5	0.000013116	5		100%
1904	7	0.000017349	7		100%
1905	7	0.000016512	7		100%
1906	8	0.000018672	8		100%
1907	12	0.000025785	12		100%
1908	11	0.000022511	11		100%
1909	10	0.000019561	10		100%
1910	8	0.000013543	8		100%
1911	9	0.000013969	9		100%
1912	20	0.000020242	20		100%
1913	12	0.000010553	12		100%
1914	8	0.000005648	8		100%
1915	20	0.000010914	20		100%
1916	14	0.000007237	14		100%
1917	15	0.000007475	15		100%
1918	22	0.000010133	22		100%
1919	17	0.000008056	17		100%
1920	26	0.000011491	26		100%
1921	16	0.000006854	16		100%
1922	18	0.000007863	18		100%
1923	12	0.000005212	12		100%
1924	13	0.000005458	13		100%
1925	15	0.000006429	15		100%
1926	20	0.000008711	20		100%
1927	27	0.000011641	27		100%
1928	20	0.000008846	20		100%
1929	16	0.000007299	16		100%
1930	12	0.000005397	12		100%
1931	17	0.000008078	17		100%
1932	16	0.000007578	16		100%
1933	17	0.000008502	17		100%
1934	9	0.000004334	9		100%
1935	9	0.000004306	9		100%
1936	13	0.000006257	13		100%
1937	39	0.000018304	39		100%
1938	53	0.000023954	53		100%
1939	57	0.000025869	57		100%
1940	200	0.000086855	200		100%
1941	308	0.000126415	308		100%
1942	388	0.00014203	388		100%
1943	407	0.000144195	407		100%
1944	308	0.000114495	308		100%
1945	335	0.000126276	335		100%
1946	410	0.000128313	410		100%
1947	520	0.000144351	520		100%
1948	955	0.00027661	955		100%
1949	1199	0.000344068	1199		100%
1950	1026	0.000292862	1026		100%
1951	1006	0.000273092	1006		100%
1952	1351	0.000355713	1351		100%
1953	1423	0.000369261	1423		100%
1954	1859	0.000467002	1859		100%
1955	2659	0.000662253	2659		100%
1956	2699	0.000654615	2692	7	99%
1957	2481	0.000590413	2475	6	100%
1958	2534	0.00061298	2534		100%
1959	2827	0.000679896	2827		100%
1960	3668	0.000883044	3661	7	100%
1961	3763	0.000908432	3757	6	100%
1962	4281	0.001060869	4281		100%
1963	4276	0.001080289	4267	9	100%
1964	3956	0.001017593	3941	15	99%
1965	3125	0.000861962	3116	9	99%
1966	3056	0.000879259	3050	6	100%
1967	3108	0.000915492	3108		100%
1968	3656	0.001082165	3643	13	99%
1969	3931	0.001131118	3926	5	100%
1970	4343	0.00120421	4330	13	99%
1971	5145	0.001498971	5134	11	100%
1972	6319	0.002010503	6295	24	99%
1973	6098	0.002021289	6079	19	99%
1974	5502	0.001809869	5483	19	99%
1975	5382	0.001782477	5368	14	99%
1976	5259	0.001733184	5241	18	99%
1977	5390	0.001696839	5373	17	99%
1978	5012	0.001579145	4996	16	99%
1979	5045	0.001516381	5021	24	99%
1980	4861	0.001411233	4840	21	99%
1981	4486	0.001296766	4474	12	99%
1982	4269	0.001216946	4255	14	99%
1983	3571	0.001031086	3553	18	99%
1984	3536	0.001013542	3515	21	99%
1985	3150	0.000882573	3132	18	99%
1986	2980	0.000837766	2973	7	100%
1987	2753	0.000763532	2745	8	99%
1988	2847	0.000770492	2834	13	99%
1989	3650	0.000949421	3629	21	99%
1990	3832	0.000969518	3813	19	99%
1991	3590	0.000921632	3580	10	99%
1992	3366	0.000876272	3353	13	99%
1993	2996	0.000794636	2987	9	99%
1994	2685	0.00072223	2679	6	100%
1995	2656	0.000725256	2646	10	99%
1996	2671	0.000732344	2663	8	99%
1997	2531	0.000698063	2522	9	99%
1998	2461	0.000669076	2461		100%
1999	2657	0.0007193	2649	8	99%
2000	2981	0.000788644	2968	13	99%
2001	2920	0.000780042	2913	7	100%
2002	3491	0.000933849	3484	7	100%
2003	3558	0.000935745	3550	8	100%
2004	3599	0.000941919	3583	16	99%
2005	3506	0.00091187	3495	11	99%
2006	4043	0.001021943	4034	9	100%
2007	4015	0.001004332	4000	15	99%
2008	3722	0.000946914	3714	8	100%
2009	3486	0.000912524	3486		100%
2010	3486	0.000943248	3486		100%
2011	3294	0.000900543	3289	5	100%
2012	3467	0.00094795	3467		100%
2013	3474	0.000952912	3474		100%
2014	3706	0.000999899	3699	7	100%
2015	3494	0.000944092	3494		100%
2016	3490	0.000951291	3490		100%
2017	3244	0.000907109	3239	5	100%
2018	2850	0.000810604	2850		100%
2019	2591	0.000746485	2591		100%
2020	2527	0.000756456	2527		100%
2021	2187	0.000645523	2187		100%
2022	2172	0.000642008	2172		100%
2023	2120	0.000640252	2120		100%
2024	2244	0.000674177	2244		100%

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