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How popular is “Meredith” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meredith” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meredith” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meredith” 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
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 6 5 9%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 -100%
1900 11 0.00002443 5 6 -9%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 8 9 -6%
1903 14 0.000036726 8 6 14%
1904 13 0.000032219 5 8 -23%
1905 19 0.00004482 10 9 5%
1906 14 0.000032676 6 8 -14%
1907 23 0.000049421 13 10 13%
1908 29 0.000059347 14 15 -3%
1909 33 0.000064551 16 17 -3%
1910 38 0.000064329 24 14 26%
1911 32 0.000049668 16 16 0%
1912 54 0.000054652 20 34 -26%
1913 81 0.000071233 38 43 -6%
1914 92 0.000064956 40 52 -13%
1915 136 0.000074219 49 87 -28%
1916 135 0.000069788 66 69 -2%
1917 137 0.00006827 63 74 -8%
1918 175 0.000080604 82 93 -6%
1919 143 0.000067765 66 77 -8%
1920 181 0.000079995 75 106 -17%
1921 200 0.000085671 99 101 -1%
1922 189 0.000082563 94 95 -1%
1923 152 0.000066016 81 71 7%
1924 158 0.000066342 82 76 4%
1925 174 0.000074572 91 83 5%
1926 150 0.000065334 83 67 11%
1927 170 0.000073296 93 77 9%
1928 182 0.000080498 95 87 4%
1929 163 0.000074356 99 64 21%
1930 161 0.000072415 94 67 17%
1931 141 0.000067003 72 69 2%
1932 144 0.000068205 88 56 22%
1933 135 0.000067519 85 50 26%
1934 182 0.000087634 127 55 40%
1935 193 0.000092349 129 64 34%
1936 234 0.000112631 165 69 41%
1937 205 0.000096214 152 53 48%
1938 271 0.000122482 194 77 43%
1939 247 0.000112097 194 53 57%
1940 254 0.000110306 172 82 35%
1941 335 0.000137497 231 104 38%
1942 369 0.000135075 272 97 47%
1943 408 0.00014455 327 81 60%
1944 392 0.000145721 328 64 67%
1945 368 0.000138716 309 59 68%
1946 415 0.000129878 332 83 60%
1947 439 0.000121866 346 93 58%
1948 361 0.000104561 294 67 63%
1949 348 0.000099863 290 58 67%
1950 358 0.000102188 304 54 70%
1951 423 0.000114829 359 64 70%
1952 390 0.000102685 315 75 62%
1953 396 0.00010276 329 67 66%
1954 342 0.000085914 282 60 65%
1955 335 0.000083435 300 35 79%
1956 333 0.000080766 288 45 73%
1957 276 0.000065681 236 40 71%
1958 254 0.000061443 217 37 71%
1959 290 0.000069745 259 31 79%
1960 286 0.000068852 247 39 73%
1961 287 0.000069285 255 32 78%
1962 300 0.000074343 261 39 74%
1963 212 0.00005356 188 24 77%
1964 332 0.0000854 301 31 81%
1965 378 0.000104263 345 33 83%
1966 374 0.000107606 347 27 86%
1967 387 0.000113995 355 32 83%
1968 558 0.000165166 536 22 92%
1969 1119 0.000321984 1092 27 95%
1970 1373 0.0003807 1352 21 97%
1971 1540 0.000448672 1507 33 96%
1972 1467 0.000466752 1434 33 96%
1973 1544 0.000511786 1523 21 97%
1974 1540 0.000506579 1519 21 97%
1975 1461 0.000483872 1428 33 95%
1976 1493 0.000492041 1468 25 97%
1977 1788 0.000562885 1766 22 98%
1978 1900 0.000598638 1880 20 98%
1979 1988 0.000597535 1962 26 97%
1980 2087 0.000605892 2071 16 98%
1981 2071 0.000598663 2047 24 98%
1982 1979 0.000564145 1954 25 97%
1983 1958 0.00056535 1941 17 98%
1984 1954 0.000560085 1937 17 98%
1985 1976 0.000553639 1959 17 98%
1986 1949 0.000547922 1927 22 98%
1987 1833 0.000508374 1815 18 98%
1988 1870 0.000506083 1855 15 98%
1989 1715 0.000446098 1698 17 98%
1990 1564 0.000395701 1556 8 99%
1991 1509 0.000387393 1494 15 98%
1992 1474 0.000383727 1463 11 99%
1993 1257 0.000333397 1252 5 99%
1994 1237 0.000332737 1230 7 99%
1995 1251 0.000341602 1244 7 99%
1996 1181 0.00032381 1181 100%
1997 1113 0.000306971 1107 6 99%
1998 1116 0.000303409 1111 5 99%
1999 1140 0.00030862 1140 100%
2000 1092 0.000288896 1092 100%
2001 957 0.000255651 957 100%
2002 833 0.000222829 833 100%
2003 840 0.000220918 840 100%
2004 961 0.00025151 953 8 98%
2005 853 0.000221856 853 100%
2006 1064 0.000268946 1064 100%
2007 952 0.000238138 952 100%
2008 717 0.000182412 710 7 98%
2009 635 0.000166223 635 100%
2010 486 0.000131503 486 100%
2011 482 0.000131773 477 5 98%
2012 423 0.000115657 423 100%
2013 433 0.000118771 433 100%
2014 476 0.000128427 476 100%
2015 510 0.000137804 510 100%
2016 588 0.000160275 588 100%
2017 628 0.000175606 628 100%
2018 598 0.000170085 598 100%
2019 527 0.000151832 527 100%
2020 499 0.000149375 499 100%
2021 533 0.000157322 533 100%
2022 557 0.00016464 557 100%
2023 595 0.000179693 595 100%
2024 621 0.00018657 621 100%

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