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How popular is “Merrilee” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merrilee” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merrilee” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merrilee” 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
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 18 0.000007388 18 100%
1942 78 0.000028552 78 100%
1943 71 0.000025154 71 100%
1944 61 0.000022676 61 100%
1945 44 0.000016586 44 100%
1946 63 0.000019716 63 100%
1947 67 0.000018599 67 100%
1948 74 0.000021434 74 100%
1949 76 0.000021809 76 100%
1950 42 0.000011988 42 100%
1951 47 0.000012759 47 100%
1952 64 0.000016851 64 100%
1953 69 0.000017905 69 100%
1954 73 0.000018338 73 100%
1955 64 0.00001594 64 100%
1956 54 0.000013097 54 100%
1957 55 0.000013089 55 100%
1958 65 0.000015724 65 100%
1959 45 0.000010823 45 100%
1960 41 0.00000987 41 100%
1961 41 0.000009898 41 100%
1962 33 0.000008178 33 100%
1963 28 0.000007074 28 100%
1964 26 0.000006688 26 100%
1965 24 0.00000662 24 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 21 0.000006186 21 100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 100%
1969 34 0.000009783 34 100%
1970 37 0.000010259 37 100%
1971 40 0.000011654 40 100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 100%
1973 17 0.000005635 17 100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 100%
1978 22 0.000006932 22 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 100%
1981 16 0.000004625 16 100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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