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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Melek” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melek” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melek” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melek” 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
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2004 10 0.000002617 5 5 0%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 100%
2009 28 0.00000733 21 7 50%
2010 22 0.000005953 15 7 36%
2011 18 0.000004921 13 5 44%
2012 25 0.000006836 20 5 60%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 100%
2017 23 0.000006431 16 7 39%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 100%
2020 22 0.000006586 15 7 36%
2021 97 0.000028631 97 100%
2022 105 0.000031036 98 7 87%
2023 57 0.000017214 57 100%
2024 61 0.000018327 56 5 84%

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