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How popular is “Merryn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merryn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merryn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merryn” 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
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 100%
2019 29 0.000008355 29 100%
2020 30 0.00000898 30 100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 100%
2022 25 0.00000739 25 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 100%

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