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How popular is “Mercer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mercer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mercer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mercer” 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 5 0.000025949 5 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 -100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 -100%
1917 20 0.000009966 5 15 -50%
1918 11 0.000005067 11 -100%
1919 19 0.000009004 19 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 -100%
1922 21 0.000009174 5 16 -52%
1923 21 0.000009121 21 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 -100%
1925 26 0.000011143 26 -100%
1926 22 0.000009582 6 16 -45%
1927 13 0.000005605 6 7 -8%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 16 0.000007299 16 -100%
1930 14 0.000006297 14 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1933 11 0.000005502 11 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 13 0.000003145 13 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 -100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 -100%
2003 18 0.000004734 5 13 -44%
2004 27 0.000007066 10 17 -26%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 -100%
2006 15 0.000003792 7 8 -7%
2007 28 0.000007004 28 -100%
2008 26 0.000006615 7 19 -46%
2009 25 0.000006544 6 19 -52%
2010 22 0.000005953 6 16 -45%
2011 32 0.000008748 5 27 -69%
2012 26 0.000007109 7 19 -46%
2013 40 0.000010972 12 28 -40%
2014 44 0.000011871 16 28 -27%
2015 45 0.000012159 8 37 -64%
2016 61 0.000016627 17 44 -44%
2017 48 0.000013422 14 34 -42%
2018 49 0.000013937 11 38 -55%
2019 42 0.0000121 5 37 -76%
2020 43 0.000012872 11 32 -49%
2021 51 0.000015053 11 40 -57%
2022 41 0.000012119 7 34 -66%
2023 45 0.00001359 11 34 -51%
2024 50 0.000015022 10 40 -60%

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