How popular is “Mulan” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Mulan” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Mulan” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1998	16	0.00000435	16		100%
1999	12	0.000003249	7	5	17%
2000	6	0.000001587	6		100%
2001	8	0.000002137	8		100%
2002	6	0.000001605	6		100%
2005	5	0.0000013	5		100%
2006	10	0.000002528	10		100%
2007	5	0.000001251	5		100%
2008	8	0.000002035	8		100%
2009	11	0.000002879	11		100%
2010	11	0.000002976	11		100%
2011	8	0.000002187	8		100%
2012	23	0.000006289	23		100%
2013	27	0.000007406	27		100%
2014	26	0.000007015	26		100%
2015	23	0.000006215	23		100%
2016	32	0.000008722	32		100%
2017	29	0.000008109	29		100%
2018	54	0.000015359	54		100%
2019	50	0.000014405	50		100%
2020	71	0.000021254	71		100%
2021	50	0.000014758	50		100%
2022	59	0.000017439	59		100%
2023	56	0.000016912	56		100%
2024	70	0.00002103	70		100%

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