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How popular is “Merrie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merrie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merrie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merrie” 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
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 100%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 100%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 100%
1936 18 0.000008664 18 100%
1937 20 0.000009387 20 100%
1938 28 0.000012655 28 100%
1939 15 0.000006808 15 100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 100%
1941 27 0.000011082 27 100%
1942 33 0.00001208 33 100%
1943 48 0.000017006 48 100%
1944 51 0.000018959 51 100%
1945 56 0.000021109 56 100%
1946 64 0.000020029 64 100%
1947 67 0.000018599 67 100%
1948 64 0.000018537 64 100%
1949 65 0.000018653 65 100%
1950 91 0.000025975 91 100%
1951 61 0.000016559 61 100%
1952 89 0.000023433 89 100%
1953 86 0.000022317 86 100%
1954 100 0.000025121 100 100%
1955 84 0.000020921 84 100%
1956 107 0.000025952 107 100%
1957 62 0.000014754 62 100%
1958 78 0.000018868 78 100%
1959 117 0.000028139 117 100%
1960 78 0.000018778 78 100%
1961 66 0.000015933 66 100%
1962 57 0.000014125 57 100%
1963 67 0.000016927 67 100%
1964 68 0.000017491 68 100%
1965 49 0.000013516 49 100%
1966 42 0.000012084 42 100%
1967 46 0.00001355 46 100%
1968 31 0.000009176 31 100%
1969 38 0.000010934 38 100%
1970 35 0.000009705 35 100%
1971 31 0.000009032 31 100%
1972 29 0.000009227 29 100%
1973 23 0.000007624 23 100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 100%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 100%
1976 15 0.000004943 15 100%
1977 21 0.000006611 21 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 100%

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