Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Merik” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merik” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merik” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merik” 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
1996 7 0.000001919 7 -100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 -100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 -100%
2005 24 0.000006242 24 -100%
2006 28 0.000007078 28 -100%
2007 21 0.000005253 21 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 -100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 21 0.000005872 21 -100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 -100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%

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