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How popular is “Merrilyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merrilyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merrilyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merrilyn” 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 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 100%
1926 10 0.000004356 10 100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 100%
1928 16 0.000007077 16 100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 100%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 100%
1935 20 0.00000957 20 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 100%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 100%
1941 22 0.00000903 22 100%
1942 38 0.00001391 38 100%
1943 38 0.000013463 38 100%
1944 40 0.000014869 40 100%
1945 25 0.000009424 25 100%
1946 28 0.000008763 28 100%
1947 27 0.000007495 27 100%
1948 30 0.000008689 30 100%
1949 31 0.000008896 31 100%
1950 25 0.000007136 25 100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 100%
1952 23 0.000006056 23 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 14 0.000003487 14 100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%

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