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How popular is “Merwin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merwin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merwin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merwin” 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
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 26 0.000022865 26 -100%
1914 34 0.000024005 34 -100%
1915 47 0.000025649 47 -100%
1916 51 0.000026365 51 -100%
1917 44 0.000021926 44 -100%
1918 34 0.00001566 34 -100%
1919 49 0.00002322 49 -100%
1920 45 0.000019888 45 -100%
1921 59 0.000025273 59 -100%
1922 53 0.000023153 53 -100%
1923 57 0.000024756 57 -100%
1924 52 0.000021834 52 -100%
1925 50 0.000021429 50 -100%
1926 58 0.000025262 58 -100%
1927 50 0.000021558 50 -100%
1928 69 0.000030518 5 64 -86%
1929 44 0.000020072 44 -100%
1930 46 0.00002069 46 -100%
1931 50 0.00002376 50 -100%
1932 40 0.000018946 40 -100%
1933 35 0.000017505 35 -100%
1934 34 0.000016371 34 -100%
1935 34 0.000016269 34 -100%
1936 28 0.000013477 28 -100%
1937 27 0.000012672 27 -100%
1938 24 0.000010847 24 -100%
1939 19 0.000008623 19 -100%
1940 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1941 19 0.000007798 19 -100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 -100%
1943 26 0.000009211 26 -100%
1944 22 0.000008178 22 -100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 22 0.000006107 22 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 -100%
1949 14 0.000004017 14 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 -100%
1951 16 0.000004343 16 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 13 0.000003373 13 -100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 -100%
1957 17 0.000004046 17 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 -100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%

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