Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Meng” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meng” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meng” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meng” 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
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 -100%
1983 26 0.000007507 26 -100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 -100%
1985 30 0.000008405 30 -100%
1986 32 0.000008996 32 -100%
1987 23 0.000006379 23 -100%
1988 31 0.00000839 31 -100%
1989 31 0.000008064 31 -100%
1990 35 0.000008855 35 -100%
1991 34 0.000008729 34 -100%
1992 36 0.000009372 36 -100%
1993 41 0.000010875 41 -100%
1994 23 0.000006187 23 -100%
1995 28 0.000007646 28 -100%
1996 21 0.000005758 21 -100%
1997 16 0.000004413 16 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 -100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 -100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 13 0.000003402 5 8 -23%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 8 5 23%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%

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