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How popular is “Meridith” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meridith” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meridith” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meridith” 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
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 100%
1943 21 0.00000744 21 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 100%
1946 21 0.000006572 16 5 52%
1947 20 0.000005552 20 100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 19 0.000005423 19 100%
1951 16 0.000004343 11 5 38%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 100%
1954 18 0.000004522 18 100%
1955 19 0.000004732 19 100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1961 22 0.000005311 22 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 21 0.000005402 21 100%
1965 19 0.000005241 19 100%
1966 17 0.000004891 17 100%
1967 31 0.000009131 31 100%
1968 24 0.000007104 24 100%
1969 56 0.000016114 56 100%
1970 79 0.000021905 79 100%
1971 104 0.0000303 104 100%
1972 92 0.000029271 92 100%
1973 87 0.000028838 87 100%
1974 96 0.000031579 96 100%
1975 69 0.000022852 69 100%
1976 90 0.000029661 90 100%
1977 78 0.000024555 78 100%
1978 93 0.000029302 93 100%
1979 100 0.000030057 100 100%
1980 93 0.000027 93 100%
1981 74 0.000021391 74 100%
1982 83 0.00002366 83 100%
1983 71 0.0000205 71 100%
1984 66 0.000018918 66 100%
1985 52 0.000014569 52 100%
1986 50 0.000014056 50 100%
1987 55 0.000015254 55 100%
1988 61 0.000016509 61 100%
1989 50 0.000013006 50 100%
1990 58 0.000014674 58 100%
1991 37 0.000009499 37 100%
1992 45 0.000011715 45 100%
1993 42 0.00001114 42 100%
1994 31 0.000008339 31 100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 100%
1996 34 0.000009322 34 100%
1997 25 0.000006895 25 100%
1998 32 0.0000087 32 100%
1999 26 0.000007039 26 100%
2000 29 0.000007672 29 100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 20 0.000005202 20 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 15 0.000003752 15 100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 100%
2009 14 0.000003665 14 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%

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