How popular is “Meliss” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Meliss” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Meliss” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1959	7	0.000001684	7	100%
1964	5	0.000001286	5	100%
1966	5	0.000001439	5	100%
1967	5	0.000001473	5	100%
1968	8	0.000002368	8	100%
1969	11	0.000003165	11	100%
1970	15	0.000004159	15	100%
1971	10	0.000002913	10	100%
1972	13	0.000004136	13	100%
1973	14	0.000004641	14	100%
1974	11	0.000003618	11	100%
1975	11	0.000003643	11	100%
1976	11	0.000003625	11	100%
1977	15	0.000004722	15	100%
1978	17	0.000005356	17	100%
1979	18	0.00000541	18	100%
1980	21	0.000006097	21	100%
1981	14	0.000004047	14	100%
1982	16	0.000004561	16	100%
1983	16	0.00000462	16	100%
1984	13	0.000003726	13	100%
1985	16	0.000004483	16	100%
1986	11	0.000003092	11	100%
1987	15	0.00000416	15	100%
1988	23	0.000006225	23	100%
1989	11	0.000002861	11	100%
1990	7	0.000001771	7	100%
1991	6	0.00000154	6	100%
1994	6	0.000001614	6	100%

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