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How popular is “Mell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mell” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mell” 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
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 -100%
1889 16 0.000055374 8 8 0%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 13 0.000011432 6 7 -8%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1915 16 0.000008732 7 9 -13%
1916 19 0.000009822 11 8 16%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 25 0.000011515 12 13 -4%
1919 16 0.000007582 8 8 0%
1920 17 0.000007513 5 12 -41%
1921 15 0.000006425 8 7 7%
1922 19 0.0000083 6 13 -37%
1923 14 0.00000608 7 7 0%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1925 14 0.000006 5 9 -29%
1926 18 0.00000784 9 9 0%
1927 16 0.000006898 6 10 -25%
1928 11 0.000004865 6 5 9%
1929 10 0.000004562 5 5 0%
1930 11 0.000004948 5 6 -9%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 -100%
1934 20 0.00000963 6 14 -40%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1946 11 0.000003443 6 5 9%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 5 7 -17%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1963 11 0.000002779 6 5 9%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%

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