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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Melisha” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melisha” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melisha” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melisha” 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
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 100%
1971 27 0.000007866 27 100%
1972 24 0.000007636 24 100%
1973 20 0.000006629 20 100%
1974 21 0.000006908 21 100%
1975 30 0.000009936 30 100%
1976 41 0.000013512 41 100%
1977 54 0.000017 54 100%
1978 33 0.000010397 33 100%
1979 28 0.000008416 28 100%
1980 62 0.000018 62 100%
1981 49 0.000014164 49 100%
1982 41 0.000011688 41 100%
1983 26 0.000007507 26 100%
1984 27 0.000007739 27 100%
1985 24 0.000006724 24 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 26 0.000007036 26 100%
1989 21 0.000005462 21 100%
1990 26 0.000006578 26 100%
1991 17 0.000004364 17 100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 19 0.000005111 19 100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%

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