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How popular is “Mercy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mercy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mercy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mercy” 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 9 0.000046708 9 100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 9 0.000022306 9 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 100%
1914 22 0.000015533 22 100%
1915 14 0.00000764 14 100%
1916 29 0.000014992 29 100%
1917 25 0.000012458 25 100%
1918 25 0.000011515 25 100%
1919 34 0.000016112 29 5 71%
1920 28 0.000012375 28 100%
1921 27 0.000011566 27 100%
1922 27 0.000011795 27 100%
1923 25 0.000010858 25 100%
1924 45 0.000018895 45 100%
1925 35 0.000015 35 100%
1926 33 0.000014373 33 100%
1927 43 0.00001854 43 100%
1928 45 0.000019903 45 100%
1929 51 0.000023265 51 100%
1930 42 0.000018891 42 100%
1931 30 0.000014256 30 100%
1932 34 0.000016104 34 100%
1933 28 0.000014004 28 100%
1934 47 0.000022631 47 100%
1935 37 0.000017704 37 100%
1936 38 0.000018291 38 100%
1937 41 0.000019243 41 100%
1938 34 0.000015367 34 100%
1939 37 0.000016792 37 100%
1940 37 0.000016068 37 100%
1941 41 0.000016828 41 100%
1942 46 0.000016839 46 100%
1943 38 0.000013463 38 100%
1944 41 0.000015241 41 100%
1945 41 0.000015455 41 100%
1946 45 0.000014083 45 100%
1947 40 0.000011104 40 100%
1948 39 0.000011296 39 100%
1949 29 0.000008322 29 100%
1950 37 0.000010561 37 100%
1951 44 0.000011944 44 100%
1952 44 0.000011585 44 100%
1953 52 0.000013494 52 100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 100%
1955 55 0.000013698 55 100%
1956 41 0.000009944 41 100%
1957 51 0.000012137 51 100%
1958 57 0.000013788 57 100%
1959 45 0.000010823 45 100%
1960 52 0.000012519 52 100%
1961 33 0.000007967 33 100%
1962 33 0.000008178 33 100%
1963 42 0.000010611 42 100%
1964 44 0.000011318 44 100%
1965 32 0.000008826 32 100%
1966 31 0.000008919 31 100%
1967 30 0.000008837 30 100%
1968 27 0.000007992 27 100%
1969 47 0.000013524 47 100%
1970 49 0.000013587 49 100%
1971 51 0.000014859 51 100%
1972 53 0.000016863 53 100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 100%
1974 69 0.000022697 69 100%
1975 70 0.000023183 70 100%
1976 38 0.000012523 38 100%
1977 52 0.00001637 52 100%
1978 35 0.000011028 35 100%
1979 57 0.000017133 57 100%
1980 50 0.000014516 50 100%
1981 49 0.000014164 49 100%
1982 46 0.000013113 46 100%
1983 40 0.00001155 40 100%
1984 33 0.000009459 33 100%
1985 45 0.000012608 45 100%
1986 33 0.000009277 33 100%
1987 40 0.000011094 40 100%
1988 42 0.000011367 42 100%
1989 43 0.000011185 43 100%
1990 53 0.000013409 53 100%
1991 50 0.000012836 50 100%
1992 47 0.000012236 47 100%
1993 52 0.000013792 52 100%
1994 59 0.00001587 59 100%
1995 69 0.000018841 69 100%
1996 85 0.000023306 85 100%
1997 102 0.000028132 102 100%
1998 72 0.000019575 72 100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 100%
2000 117 0.000030953 112 5 91%
2001 131 0.000034995 131 100%
2002 111 0.000029693 111 100%
2003 155 0.000040765 155 100%
2004 150 0.000039258 150 100%
2005 159 0.000041354 159 100%
2006 163 0.000041201 163 100%
2007 176 0.000044026 176 100%
2008 182 0.000046303 182 100%
2009 193 0.000050521 193 100%
2010 207 0.00005601 207 100%
2011 246 0.000067254 246 100%
2012 255 0.000069722 255 100%
2013 320 0.000087775 314 6 96%
2014 298 0.000080402 289 9 94%
2015 276 0.000074576 265 11 92%
2016 372 0.000101398 360 12 94%
2017 383 0.000107097 367 16 92%
2018 405 0.000115191 392 13 94%
2019 459 0.000132241 439 20 91%
2020 356 0.000106568 339 17 90%
2021 383 0.000113048 363 20 90%
2022 376 0.00011114 355 21 89%
2023 357 0.000107816 329 28 84%
2024 342 0.000102749 318 24 86%

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