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How popular is “Mellissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mellissa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mellissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mellissa” 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
1926 5 0.000002178 5 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 13 0.000003373 13 100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 100%
1956 20 0.000004851 20 100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 100%
1958 20 0.000004838 20 100%
1959 26 0.000006253 26 100%
1960 28 0.000006741 28 100%
1961 39 0.000009415 39 100%
1962 33 0.000008178 33 100%
1963 50 0.000012632 50 100%
1964 50 0.000012861 50 100%
1965 69 0.000019032 69 100%
1966 113 0.000032512 113 100%
1967 147 0.0000433 147 100%
1968 172 0.000050911 172 100%
1969 173 0.00004978 173 100%
1970 191 0.00005296 191 100%
1971 158 0.000046033 158 100%
1972 171 0.000054407 171 100%
1973 175 0.000058007 175 100%
1974 166 0.000054605 166 100%
1975 171 0.000056634 171 100%
1976 169 0.000055697 169 100%
1977 230 0.000072407 230 100%
1978 218 0.000068686 218 100%
1979 272 0.000081755 272 100%
1980 250 0.000072579 250 100%
1981 228 0.000065908 228 100%
1982 197 0.000056158 197 100%
1983 173 0.000049952 173 100%
1984 155 0.000044428 155 100%
1985 185 0.000051834 185 100%
1986 135 0.000037953 135 100%
1987 144 0.000039938 144 100%
1988 146 0.000039512 146 100%
1989 117 0.000030434 117 100%
1990 129 0.000032638 129 100%
1991 98 0.000025159 98 100%
1992 96 0.000024992 96 100%
1993 70 0.000018566 70 100%
1994 62 0.000016677 62 100%
1995 67 0.000018295 67 100%
1996 60 0.000016451 60 100%
1997 42 0.000011584 42 100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 100%
1999 36 0.000009746 36 100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 100%
2011 10 0.000002734 10 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%

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