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How popular is “Mordechai” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mordechai” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mordechai” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mordechai” 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
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 10 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 10 0.000002758 10 -100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 -100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 -100%
1971 26 0.000007575 26 -100%
1972 22 0.000007 22 -100%
1973 28 0.000009281 28 -100%
1974 16 0.000005263 16 -100%
1975 32 0.000010598 32 -100%
1976 32 0.000010546 32 -100%
1977 37 0.000011648 37 -100%
1978 47 0.000014808 47 -100%
1979 41 0.000012323 41 -100%
1980 34 0.000009871 34 -100%
1981 49 0.000014164 49 -100%
1982 44 0.000012543 44 -100%
1983 57 0.000016458 57 -100%
1984 40 0.000011465 40 -100%
1985 50 0.000014009 50 -100%
1986 50 0.000014056 50 -100%
1987 48 0.000013313 48 -100%
1988 68 0.000018403 68 -100%
1989 73 0.000018988 73 -100%
1990 62 0.000015686 62 -100%
1991 75 0.000019254 75 -100%
1992 86 0.000022388 86 -100%
1993 62 0.000016444 62 -100%
1994 96 0.000025823 96 -100%
1995 88 0.00002403 88 -100%
1996 89 0.000024402 89 -100%
1997 114 0.000031442 114 -100%
1998 112 0.00003045 112 -100%
1999 106 0.000028696 106 -100%
2000 116 0.000030689 116 -100%
2001 129 0.000034461 129 -100%
2002 124 0.00003317 124 -100%
2003 169 0.000044447 169 -100%
2004 153 0.000040043 153 -100%
2005 146 0.000037973 146 -100%
2006 136 0.000034377 136 -100%
2007 148 0.000037021 148 -100%
2008 146 0.000037144 146 -100%
2009 165 0.000043192 165 -100%
2010 162 0.000043834 162 -100%
2011 183 0.00005003 183 -100%
2012 200 0.000054684 200 -100%
2013 197 0.000054037 197 -100%
2014 184 0.000049644 184 -100%
2015 175 0.000047286 175 -100%
2016 184 0.000050154 184 -100%
2017 203 0.000056764 203 -100%
2018 315 0.000089593 315 -100%
2019 297 0.000085568 297 -100%
2020 258 0.000077232 258 -100%
2021 229 0.000067593 229 -100%
2022 233 0.000068871 233 -100%
2023 243 0.000073387 243 -100%
2024 233 0.000070001 233 -100%

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