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How popular is “Merci” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merci” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merci” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merci” 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
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 16 0.000004274 16 100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 100%
2003 15 0.000003945 15 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 100%
2010 19 0.000005141 19 100%
2011 23 0.000006288 23 100%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 100%
2015 32 0.000008647 32 100%
2016 45 0.000012266 45 100%
2017 47 0.000013142 47 100%
2018 57 0.000016212 51 6 79%
2019 74 0.00002132 69 5 86%
2020 54 0.000016165 47 7 74%
2021 58 0.00001712 48 10 66%
2022 74 0.000021873 66 8 78%
2023 54 0.000016308 49 5 81%
2024 44 0.000013219 32 12 45%

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