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How popular is “Merril” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merril” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merril” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merril” 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
1910 8 0.000013543 8 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 18 0.00001583 18 -100%
1914 25 0.000017651 6 19 -52%
1915 23 0.000012552 5 18 -57%
1916 19 0.000009822 19 -100%
1917 25 0.000012458 25 -100%
1918 29 0.000013357 29 -100%
1919 27 0.000012795 27 -100%
1920 37 0.000016353 37 -100%
1921 32 0.000013707 32 -100%
1922 33 0.000014416 5 28 -70%
1923 26 0.000011292 26 -100%
1924 31 0.000013016 31 -100%
1925 24 0.000010286 24 -100%
1926 29 0.000012631 29 -100%
1927 18 0.000007761 5 13 -44%
1928 25 0.000011057 25 -100%
1929 18 0.000008211 18 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 -100%
1933 20 0.000010003 20 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 -100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 -100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 14 0.000006354 14 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 20 0.000008209 6 14 -40%
1942 25 0.000009151 11 14 -12%
1943 25 0.000008857 6 19 -52%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 -100%
1945 24 0.000009047 10 14 -17%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 8 9 -6%
1948 15 0.000004345 6 9 -20%
1949 25 0.000007174 11 14 -12%
1950 23 0.000006565 12 11 4%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 16 0.000004213 7 9 -13%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1954 18 0.000004522 6 12 -33%
1955 14 0.000003487 6 8 -14%
1956 21 0.000005093 9 12 -14%
1957 16 0.000003808 5 11 -38%
1960 12 0.000002889 5 7 -17%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1967 11 0.00000324 5 6 -9%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%

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