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How popular is “Muriel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Muriel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Muriel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Muriel” 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
1880 7 0.000034742 7 100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 100%
1883 18 0.00008297 18 100%
1884 21 0.000086256 21 100%
1885 26 0.000107949 26 100%
1886 25 0.000097918 25 100%
1887 29 0.000117223 29 100%
1888 43 0.000143585 43 100%
1889 53 0.000183425 53 100%
1890 58 0.000192435 58 100%
1891 59 0.000205809 59 100%
1892 69 0.000206356 69 100%
1893 87 0.000267509 87 100%
1894 89 0.000262777 89 100%
1895 108 0.000307675 108 100%
1896 144 0.000402815 144 100%
1897 152 0.000438095 152 100%
1898 129 0.000338179 129 100%
1899 167 0.000492286 167 100%
1900 224 0.000497493 224 100%
1901 195 0.00056389 195 100%
1902 206 0.000532667 206 100%
1903 220 0.000577125 220 100%
1904 214 0.000530379 214 100%
1905 186 0.00043876 186 100%
1906 225 0.000525148 220 5 96%
1907 226 0.000485614 219 7 94%
1908 262 0.000536172 262 100%
1909 316 0.000618124 311 5 97%
1910 365 0.000617899 365 100%
1911 353 0.0005479 353 100%
1912 705 0.000713518 695 10 97%
1913 892 0.000784445 882 10 98%
1914 1141 0.000805595 1133 8 99%
1915 1453 0.000792938 1445 8 99%
1916 1535 0.000793521 1524 11 99%
1917 1730 0.00086209 1714 16 98%
1918 1812 0.000834596 1797 15 98%
1919 1824 0.000864355 1793 31 97%
1920 2089 0.000923257 2071 18 98%
1921 2279 0.000976224 2248 31 97%
1922 2407 0.001051479 2392 15 99%
1923 2388 0.001037142 2360 28 98%
1924 2261 0.000949358 2237 24 98%
1925 2248 0.000963442 2215 33 97%
1926 2064 0.000898992 2027 37 96%
1927 1836 0.000791598 1807 29 97%
1928 1688 0.000746593 1661 27 97%
1929 1489 0.000679238 1463 26 97%
1930 1373 0.000617554 1341 32 95%
1931 1103 0.000524143 1081 22 96%
1932 1069 0.000506325 1046 23 96%
1933 886 0.000443123 872 14 97%
1934 845 0.000406873 829 16 96%
1935 814 0.000389492 797 17 96%
1936 708 0.000340781 698 10 97%
1937 719 0.000337453 702 17 95%
1938 717 0.000324057 706 11 97%
1939 599 0.000271847 584 15 95%
1940 603 0.000261868 581 22 93%
1941 550 0.000225741 541 9 97%
1942 537 0.000196572 517 20 93%
1943 541 0.00019167 530 11 96%
1944 480 0.000178433 472 8 97%
1945 396 0.00014927 390 6 97%
1946 408 0.000127687 399 9 96%
1947 461 0.000127973 448 13 94%
1948 396 0.000114699 386 10 95%
1949 417 0.000119663 402 15 93%
1950 338 0.000096479 330 8 95%
1951 347 0.000094198 334 13 93%
1952 319 0.000083991 319 100%
1953 319 0.000082779 309 10 94%
1954 273 0.000068581 267 6 96%
1955 251 0.000062514 245 6 95%
1956 227 0.000055057 219 8 93%
1957 216 0.000051402 216 100%
1958 169 0.000040881 169 100%
1959 168 0.000040404 163 5 94%
1960 168 0.000040445 168 100%
1961 179 0.000043213 172 7 92%
1962 163 0.000040393 163 100%
1963 175 0.000044212 175 100%
1964 141 0.000036269 141 100%
1965 108 0.000029789 108 100%
1966 110 0.000031649 105 5 91%
1967 84 0.000024743 84 100%
1968 82 0.000024272 82 100%
1969 67 0.000019279 67 100%
1970 76 0.000021073 76 100%
1971 81 0.000023599 81 100%
1972 46 0.000014636 46 100%
1973 53 0.000017568 53 100%
1974 41 0.000013487 41 100%
1975 55 0.000018216 55 100%
1976 27 0.000008898 27 100%
1977 39 0.000012278 39 100%
1978 50 0.000015754 50 100%
1979 30 0.000009017 30 100%
1980 51 0.000014806 51 100%
1981 34 0.000009828 34 100%
1982 43 0.000012258 43 100%
1983 40 0.00001155 40 100%
1984 36 0.000010319 36 100%
1985 38 0.000010647 38 100%
1986 59 0.000016587 59 100%
1987 48 0.000013313 48 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 47 0.000012225 47 100%
1990 37 0.000009361 37 100%
1991 42 0.000010782 42 100%
1992 34 0.000008851 34 100%
1993 42 0.00001114 42 100%
1994 25 0.000006725 25 100%
1995 37 0.000010103 37 100%
1996 45 0.000012338 45 100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 100%
1998 41 0.000011147 41 100%
1999 23 0.000006227 23 100%
2000 32 0.000008466 32 100%
2001 30 0.000008014 30 100%
2002 38 0.000010165 38 100%
2003 30 0.00000789 30 100%
2004 27 0.000007066 27 100%
2005 27 0.000007022 27 100%
2006 33 0.000008341 33 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 31 0.000007887 31 100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 100%
2010 22 0.000005953 22 100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 100%
2014 30 0.000008094 30 100%
2015 28 0.000007566 28 100%
2016 21 0.000005724 21 100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 100%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 100%
2019 20 0.000005762 20 100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 100%
2022 22 0.000006503 22 100%
2023 27 0.000008154 27 100%
2024 50 0.000015022 50 100%

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