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How popular is “Mercedes” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mercedes” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mercedes” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mercedes” 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
1880 6 0.000029779 6 100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1885 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1886 10 0.000039167 10 100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 100%
1888 9 0.000030053 9 100%
1889 13 0.000044991 13 100%
1890 14 0.00004645 14 100%
1891 18 0.000062789 18 100%
1892 17 0.000050841 17 100%
1893 14 0.000043047 14 100%
1894 25 0.000073814 25 100%
1895 27 0.000076919 27 100%
1896 26 0.000072731 26 100%
1897 17 0.000048997 17 100%
1898 33 0.000086511 33 100%
1899 35 0.000103174 35 100%
1900 49 0.000108826 49 100%
1901 25 0.000072294 25 100%
1902 44 0.000113774 44 100%
1903 33 0.000086569 33 100%
1904 62 0.000153661 62 100%
1905 60 0.000141535 60 100%
1906 52 0.000121367 52 100%
1907 68 0.000146114 68 100%
1908 64 0.000130973 64 100%
1909 73 0.000142795 73 100%
1910 82 0.000138816 82 100%
1911 92 0.000142795 92 100%
1912 122 0.000123474 122 100%
1913 131 0.000115204 131 100%
1914 167 0.000117909 167 100%
1915 232 0.000126608 232 100%
1916 227 0.000117348 227 100%
1917 259 0.000129064 253 6 95%
1918 236 0.0001087 236 100%
1919 225 0.000106623 225 100%
1920 323 0.000142753 318 5 97%
1921 299 0.000128079 299 100%
1922 239 0.000104405 239 100%
1923 283 0.000122911 276 7 95%
1924 329 0.000138142 319 10 94%
1925 304 0.000130287 295 9 94%
1926 273 0.000118907 273 100%
1927 299 0.000128915 291 8 95%
1928 258 0.000114112 252 6 95%
1929 275 0.000125447 266 9 93%
1930 234 0.00010525 234 100%
1931 220 0.000104543 212 8 93%
1932 191 0.000090466 186 5 95%
1933 182 0.000091025 176 6 93%
1934 168 0.000080893 168 100%
1935 181 0.000086607 175 6 93%
1936 163 0.000078457 163 100%
1937 203 0.000095275 197 6 94%
1938 177 0.000079997 177 100%
1939 170 0.000077152 170 100%
1940 135 0.000058627 135 100%
1941 120 0.000049252 120 100%
1942 120 0.000043927 120 100%
1943 134 0.000047475 134 100%
1944 124 0.000046095 124 100%
1945 156 0.000058803 156 100%
1946 149 0.000046631 149 100%
1947 146 0.000040529 146 100%
1948 136 0.000039392 136 100%
1949 148 0.00004247 148 100%
1950 179 0.000051094 179 100%
1951 188 0.000051035 188 100%
1952 158 0.000041601 158 100%
1953 159 0.00004126 159 100%
1954 183 0.000045972 183 100%
1955 159 0.000039601 159 100%
1956 188 0.000045597 188 100%
1957 168 0.00003998 168 100%
1958 184 0.00004451 184 100%
1959 181 0.000043531 176 5 94%
1960 167 0.000040204 167 100%
1961 180 0.000043454 180 100%
1962 180 0.000044606 180 100%
1963 184 0.000046486 184 100%
1964 173 0.0000445 173 100%
1965 169 0.000046615 169 100%
1966 158 0.000045459 158 100%
1967 164 0.000048308 164 100%
1968 157 0.000046472 157 100%
1969 167 0.000048053 167 100%
1970 202 0.00005601 202 100%
1971 191 0.000055647 191 100%
1972 189 0.000060134 189 100%
1973 173 0.000057344 168 5 94%
1974 174 0.000057237 169 5 94%
1975 219 0.000072531 211 8 93%
1976 215 0.000070857 203 12 89%
1977 209 0.000065796 209 100%
1978 219 0.000069001 219 100%
1979 228 0.00006853 223 5 96%
1980 259 0.000075192 248 11 92%
1981 264 0.000076314 254 10 92%
1982 311 0.000088655 304 7 95%
1983 320 0.000092396 311 9 94%
1984 305 0.000087424 294 11 93%
1985 368 0.000103107 359 9 95%
1986 404 0.000113576 385 19 91%
1987 445 0.000123419 427 18 92%
1988 636 0.000172122 609 27 92%
1989 1245 0.000323844 1220 25 96%
1990 1673 0.000423279 1654 19 98%
1991 1808 0.000464153 1798 10 99%
1992 1742 0.000453496 1729 13 99%
1993 1794 0.000475827 1779 15 98%
1994 1577 0.000424192 1571 6 99%
1995 1543 0.000421337 1543 100%
1996 1397 0.000383034 1390 7 99%
1997 1244 0.000343102 1244 100%
1998 1382 0.000375727 1376 6 99%
1999 1216 0.000329194 1207 9 99%
2000 1134 0.000300008 1134 100%
2001 1098 0.000293317 1098 100%
2002 1069 0.00028596 1069 100%
2003 949 0.000249585 949 100%
2004 959 0.000250986 952 7 99%
2005 817 0.000212492 817 100%
2006 730 0.000184521 730 100%
2007 664 0.000166096 664 100%
2008 582 0.000148067 582 100%
2009 457 0.000119628 457 100%
2010 436 0.000117974 436 100%
2011 366 0.00010006 366 100%
2012 398 0.000108821 398 100%
2013 301 0.000082564 301 100%
2014 271 0.000073117 271 100%
2015 244 0.00006593 244 100%
2016 255 0.000069507 255 100%
2017 246 0.000068788 246 100%
2018 237 0.000067408 237 100%
2019 196 0.000056469 196 100%
2020 176 0.000052686 176 100%
2021 194 0.000057262 194 100%
2022 194 0.000057343 194 100%
2023 157 0.000047415 157 100%
2024 151 0.000045366 151 100%

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