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How popular is “Merwyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Merwyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Merwyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Merwyn” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 19 0.000009822 19 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 5 9 -29%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 -100%
1919 11 0.000005213 11 -100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 -100%
1921 13 0.000005569 13 -100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 -100%
1923 18 0.000007818 18 -100%
1924 18 0.000007558 18 -100%
1925 24 0.000010286 5 19 -58%
1926 23 0.000010018 23 -100%
1927 24 0.000010348 24 -100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 -100%
1929 21 0.00000958 21 -100%
1930 28 0.000012594 28 -100%
1931 22 0.000010454 22 -100%
1932 19 0.000008999 19 -100%
1933 28 0.000014004 28 -100%
1934 34 0.000016371 34 -100%
1935 28 0.000013398 28 -100%
1936 31 0.000014921 31 -100%
1937 38 0.000017835 38 -100%
1938 36 0.000016271 36 -100%
1939 24 0.000010892 24 -100%
1940 30 0.000013028 30 -100%
1941 22 0.00000903 22 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 -100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 14 0.000004381 14 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%

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