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How popular is “Metro” in the USA?

Number of people named “Metro” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Metro” by birth year

This chart shows how “Metro” 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
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1911 12 0.000018626 12 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 19 0.000016709 19 -100%
1914 23 0.000016239 23 -100%
1915 35 0.0000191 35 -100%
1916 29 0.000014992 29 -100%
1917 41 0.000020431 41 -100%
1918 35 0.000016121 35 -100%
1919 48 0.000022746 48 -100%
1920 32 0.000014143 32 -100%
1921 26 0.000011137 26 -100%
1922 26 0.000011358 26 -100%
1923 29 0.000012595 29 -100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 21 0.000009147 21 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Metro:

  1. Methuselah
  2. Methyl
  3. Meti
  4. Metin
  5. Metra
  6. Metro (this page)
  7. Metta
  8. Mette
  9. Metthew
  10. Mettie
  11. Metz