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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Merryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merryl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merryl” 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
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 16 0.000004343 16 100%
1952 19 0.000005003 19 100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 100%
1955 21 0.00000523 21 100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%

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