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How popular is “Merrily” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merrily” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merrily” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merrily” 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
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 100%
1942 210 0.000076872 210 100%
1943 120 0.000042515 120 100%
1944 71 0.000026393 71 100%
1945 53 0.000019978 53 100%
1946 66 0.000020655 66 100%
1947 39 0.000010826 39 100%
1948 37 0.000010717 37 100%
1949 29 0.000008322 29 100%
1950 28 0.000007992 28 100%
1951 15 0.000004072 15 100%
1952 15 0.000003949 15 100%
1953 13 0.000003373 13 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 14 0.000003487 14 100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 100%
1957 19 0.000004522 19 100%
1958 15 0.000003629 15 100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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