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How popular is “Merissa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merissa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merissa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merissa” 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
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 13 0.000004276 13 100%
1975 26 0.000008611 26 100%
1976 34 0.000011205 34 100%
1977 60 0.000018889 60 100%
1978 50 0.000015754 50 100%
1979 70 0.00002104 70 100%
1980 50 0.000014516 50 100%
1981 58 0.000016766 58 100%
1982 56 0.000015964 56 100%
1983 63 0.000018191 63 100%
1984 72 0.000020638 72 100%
1985 65 0.000018212 65 100%
1986 105 0.000029519 105 100%
1987 125 0.000034668 125 100%
1988 104 0.000028146 104 100%
1989 155 0.000040318 155 100%
1990 168 0.000042505 168 100%
1991 158 0.000040562 158 100%
1992 155 0.000040351 155 100%
1993 167 0.000044294 167 100%
1994 155 0.000041693 155 100%
1995 172 0.000046967 172 100%
1996 120 0.000032902 120 100%
1997 109 0.000030063 109 100%
1998 108 0.000029362 108 100%
1999 88 0.000023823 88 100%
2000 88 0.000023281 88 100%
2001 85 0.000022707 85 100%
2002 75 0.000020063 75 100%
2003 83 0.000021829 83 100%
2004 76 0.00001989 76 100%
2005 77 0.000020027 77 100%
2006 73 0.000018452 73 100%
2007 68 0.00001701 68 100%
2008 52 0.000013229 52 100%
2009 34 0.0000089 34 100%
2010 30 0.000008117 30 100%
2011 20 0.000005468 20 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 100%
2017 6 0.000001678 6 100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%

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