Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Meleny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meleny” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meleny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meleny” 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
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1996 7 0.000001919 7 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 10 0.000002719 10 100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 100%
2000 33 0.00000873 33 100%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 100%
2002 35 0.000009363 35 100%
2003 34 0.000008942 34 100%
2004 32 0.000008375 32 100%
2005 31 0.000008063 31 100%
2006 42 0.000010616 42 100%
2007 35 0.000008755 35 100%
2008 36 0.000009159 36 100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 100%
2010 31 0.000008388 31 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 100%
2012 18 0.000004922 18 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 100%

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