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How popular is “Murl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Murl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Murl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Murl” 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
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1891 12 0.00004186 5 7 -17%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 19 0.000056098 12 7 26%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 100%
1897 12 0.000034586 7 5 17%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 6 0.000013326 6 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1903 17 0.000044596 12 5 41%
1904 12 0.000029741 6 6 0%
1905 17 0.000040102 8 9 -6%
1906 13 0.000030342 7 6 8%
1907 14 0.000030082 9 5 29%
1908 17 0.00003479 9 8 6%
1909 17 0.000033254 7 10 -18%
1910 14 0.0000237 9 5 29%
1911 14 0.00002173 5 9 -29%
1912 32 0.000032387 11 21 -31%
1913 43 0.000037815 17 26 -21%
1914 52 0.000036714 17 35 -35%
1915 74 0.000040384 24 50 -35%
1916 81 0.000041873 22 59 -46%
1917 61 0.000030397 19 42 -38%
1918 82 0.000037769 29 53 -29%
1919 78 0.000036963 13 65 -67%
1920 81 0.000035799 29 52 -28%
1921 72 0.000030842 15 57 -58%
1922 76 0.0000332 21 55 -45%
1923 59 0.000025625 16 43 -46%
1924 84 0.00003527 19 65 -55%
1925 68 0.000029143 16 52 -53%
1926 69 0.000030054 19 50 -45%
1927 84 0.000036217 26 58 -38%
1928 66 0.000029191 20 46 -39%
1929 53 0.000024177 20 33 -25%
1930 71 0.000031935 24 47 -32%
1931 50 0.00002376 9 41 -64%
1932 54 0.000025577 12 42 -56%
1933 40 0.000020006 6 34 -70%
1934 45 0.000021668 8 37 -64%
1935 45 0.000021532 16 29 -29%
1936 44 0.000021179 10 34 -55%
1937 33 0.000015488 6 27 -64%
1938 46 0.00002079 11 35 -52%
1939 42 0.000019061 6 36 -71%
1940 35 0.0000152 5 30 -71%
1941 34 0.000013955 6 28 -65%
1942 38 0.00001391 6 32 -68%
1943 26 0.000009211 26 -100%
1944 25 0.000009293 25 -100%
1945 35 0.000013193 35 -100%
1946 30 0.000009389 11 19 -27%
1947 46 0.00001277 8 38 -65%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 -100%
1949 15 0.000004304 15 -100%
1950 30 0.000008563 30 -100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 -100%
1952 28 0.000007372 5 23 -64%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 -100%
1954 20 0.000005024 20 -100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 -100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 -100%
1957 20 0.000004759 20 -100%
1958 25 0.000006048 6 19 -52%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 -100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%

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