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How popular is “Merton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merton” 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 27 0.000134006 27 -100%
1881 17 0.000088226 17 -100%
1882 20 0.00009028 20 -100%
1883 23 0.000106017 23 -100%
1884 16 0.000065719 16 -100%
1885 12 0.000049823 12 -100%
1886 10 0.000039167 10 -100%
1887 15 0.000060633 15 -100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 -100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 -100%
1890 8 0.000026543 8 -100%
1891 12 0.00004186 12 -100%
1892 19 0.000056823 19 -100%
1893 14 0.000043047 14 -100%
1894 15 0.000044288 15 -100%
1895 12 0.000034186 12 -100%
1896 17 0.000047555 17 -100%
1897 14 0.000040351 14 -100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1901 13 0.000037593 13 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 17 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 16 0.000037743 16 -100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 -100%
1907 21 0.000045123 21 -100%
1908 26 0.000053208 26 -100%
1909 20 0.000039122 20 -100%
1910 16 0.000027086 16 -100%
1911 33 0.00005122 33 -100%
1912 60 0.000060725 60 -100%
1913 56 0.000049248 56 -100%
1914 77 0.000054365 77 -100%
1915 105 0.000057301 105 -100%
1916 117 0.000060483 117 -100%
1917 116 0.000057805 116 -100%
1918 137 0.000063101 137 -100%
1919 104 0.000049283 104 -100%
1920 150 0.000066294 150 -100%
1921 139 0.000059542 139 -100%
1922 129 0.000056353 129 -100%
1923 141 0.000061238 141 -100%
1924 132 0.000055425 132 -100%
1925 141 0.000060429 141 -100%
1926 115 0.000050089 115 -100%
1927 134 0.000057775 134 -100%
1928 124 0.000054844 124 -100%
1929 106 0.000048354 106 -100%
1930 113 0.000050826 113 -100%
1931 76 0.000036115 76 -100%
1932 90 0.000042628 90 -100%
1933 83 0.000041511 83 -100%
1934 79 0.000038039 79 -100%
1935 79 0.000037801 79 -100%
1936 62 0.000029842 62 -100%
1937 75 0.0000352 75 -100%
1938 61 0.00002757 61 -100%
1939 43 0.000019515 43 -100%
1940 45 0.000019542 45 -100%
1941 61 0.000025037 61 -100%
1942 53 0.000019401 53 -100%
1943 55 0.000019486 55 -100%
1944 41 0.000015241 41 -100%
1945 30 0.000011308 30 -100%
1946 35 0.000010954 35 -100%
1947 44 0.000012214 44 -100%
1948 32 0.000009269 32 -100%
1949 32 0.000009183 32 -100%
1950 31 0.000008849 31 -100%
1951 32 0.000008687 32 -100%
1952 28 0.000007372 28 -100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 -100%
1954 23 0.000005778 23 -100%
1955 20 0.000004981 20 -100%
1956 27 0.000006549 27 -100%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 -100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 -100%
1959 24 0.000005772 24 -100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 -100%
1961 17 0.000004104 17 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 -100%
1964 18 0.00000463 18 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 -100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 -100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%

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