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How popular is “Mele” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mele” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mele” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mele” 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
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 15 0.000004355 15 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 14 0.000003991 14 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 100%
1990 27 0.000006831 27 100%
1991 33 0.000008472 33 100%
1992 20 0.000005207 20 100%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 100%
1994 27 0.000007263 27 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 100%
2007 26 0.000006504 26 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 100%
2022 20 0.000005912 20 100%
2023 12 0.000003624 12 100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

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