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How popular is “Mertie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mertie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mertie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mertie” 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
1880 18 0.000089337 18 100%
1881 29 0.000150502 29 100%
1882 38 0.000171532 38 100%
1883 36 0.00016594 36 100%
1884 42 0.000172512 42 100%
1885 39 0.000161924 39 100%
1886 34 0.000133168 34 100%
1887 36 0.000145518 36 100%
1888 29 0.000096836 29 100%
1889 24 0.000083061 24 100%
1890 30 0.000099535 30 100%
1891 24 0.000083719 24 100%
1892 28 0.000083739 28 100%
1893 31 0.000095319 31 100%
1894 30 0.000088577 30 100%
1895 33 0.000094012 33 100%
1896 30 0.00008392 30 100%
1897 23 0.000066291 23 100%
1898 25 0.000065539 25 100%
1899 23 0.0000678 23 100%
1900 34 0.000075512 34 100%
1901 31 0.000089644 31 100%
1902 22 0.000056887 22 100%
1903 18 0.000047219 18 100%
1904 28 0.000069395 28 100%
1905 28 0.00006605 28 100%
1906 19 0.000044346 19 100%
1907 18 0.000038677 18 100%
1908 23 0.000047069 23 100%
1909 28 0.000054771 28 100%
1910 17 0.000028779 17 100%
1911 23 0.000035699 23 100%
1912 23 0.000023278 23 100%
1913 18 0.00001583 18 100%
1914 24 0.000016945 24 100%
1915 40 0.000021829 40 100%
1916 37 0.000019127 37 100%
1917 41 0.000020431 41 100%
1918 46 0.000021187 46 100%
1919 44 0.000020851 44 100%
1920 32 0.000014143 32 100%
1921 38 0.000016278 38 100%
1922 42 0.000018347 42 100%
1923 32 0.000013898 32 100%
1924 23 0.000009657 23 100%
1925 36 0.000015429 36 100%
1926 26 0.000011325 26 100%
1927 31 0.000013366 31 100%
1928 24 0.000010615 24 100%
1929 23 0.000010492 23 100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 100%
1931 22 0.000010454 22 100%
1932 27 0.000012788 27 100%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 100%
1934 21 0.000010112 21 100%
1935 15 0.000007177 15 100%
1936 13 0.000006257 13 100%
1937 15 0.00000704 15 100%
1938 26 0.000011751 26 100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 100%
1940 25 0.000010857 25 100%
1941 18 0.000007388 18 100%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 100%
1943 13 0.000004606 13 100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 100%

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