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How popular is “Meranda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meranda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meranda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meranda” 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
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 40 0.000013158 40 100%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 100%
1976 51 0.000016808 51 100%
1977 47 0.000014796 47 100%
1978 58 0.000018274 58 100%
1979 58 0.000017433 58 100%
1980 90 0.000026129 90 100%
1981 64 0.0000185 64 100%
1982 71 0.00002024 71 100%
1983 69 0.000019923 69 100%
1984 65 0.000018631 65 100%
1985 60 0.000016811 60 100%
1986 50 0.000014056 50 100%
1987 53 0.000014699 53 100%
1988 56 0.000015155 56 100%
1989 76 0.000019769 76 100%
1990 123 0.00003112 123 100%
1991 171 0.000043899 171 100%
1992 153 0.000039831 153 100%
1993 140 0.000037133 140 100%
1994 186 0.000050032 186 100%
1995 178 0.000048605 178 100%
1996 158 0.000043321 158 100%
1997 118 0.000032545 118 100%
1998 99 0.000026915 99 100%
1999 105 0.000028425 105 100%
2000 65 0.000017196 65 100%
2001 56 0.00001496 56 100%
2002 56 0.00001498 56 100%
2003 27 0.000007101 27 100%
2004 53 0.000013871 53 100%
2005 41 0.000010664 41 100%
2006 29 0.00000733 29 100%
2007 27 0.000006754 27 100%
2008 30 0.000007632 30 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 100%
2013 10 0.000002743 10 100%

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