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How popular is “Melford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melford” 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
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 -100%
1914 20 0.000014121 20 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 16 -100%
1916 33 0.000017059 33 -100%
1917 23 0.000011461 23 -100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 -100%
1919 20 0.000009478 20 -100%
1920 24 0.000010607 24 -100%
1921 46 0.000019704 46 -100%
1922 30 0.000013105 30 -100%
1923 42 0.000018241 42 -100%
1924 32 0.000013436 32 -100%
1925 40 0.000017143 40 -100%
1926 26 0.000011325 26 -100%
1927 31 0.000013366 31 -100%
1928 30 0.000013269 30 -100%
1929 33 0.000015054 33 -100%
1930 27 0.000012144 27 -100%
1931 21 0.000009979 21 -100%
1932 21 0.000009947 21 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 -100%
1934 18 0.000008667 18 -100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 -100%
1936 22 0.000010589 22 -100%
1937 30 0.00001408 30 -100%
1938 23 0.000010395 23 -100%
1939 20 0.000009077 20 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 -100%
1941 20 0.000008209 20 -100%
1942 21 0.000007687 21 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 -100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 -100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 -100%
1948 22 0.000006372 22 -100%
1949 19 0.000005452 19 -100%
1950 15 0.000004282 15 -100%
1951 21 0.000005701 21 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 -100%
1956 13 0.000003153 13 -100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%

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