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How popular is “Myrl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Myrl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Myrl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Myrl” 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
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 100%
1896 22 0.000061541 16 6 45%
1897 19 0.000054762 14 5 47%
1898 23 0.000060295 18 5 57%
1899 30 0.000088435 24 6 60%
1900 30 0.000066628 25 5 67%
1901 17 0.00004916 17 100%
1902 26 0.00006723 19 7 46%
1903 25 0.000065582 19 6 52%
1904 15 0.000037176 15 100%
1905 27 0.000063691 27 100%
1906 32 0.000074688 23 9 44%
1907 19 0.000040826 19 100%
1908 30 0.000061394 23 7 53%
1909 33 0.000064551 25 8 52%
1910 23 0.000038936 23 100%
1911 32 0.000049668 27 5 69%
1912 47 0.000047568 33 14 40%
1913 62 0.000054524 42 20 35%
1914 59 0.000041657 42 17 42%
1915 88 0.000048024 51 37 16%
1916 128 0.00006617 84 44 31%
1917 95 0.00004734 58 37 22%
1918 113 0.000052047 74 39 31%
1919 89 0.000042175 53 36 19%
1920 123 0.000054361 84 39 37%
1921 96 0.000041122 53 43 10%
1922 91 0.000039753 62 29 36%
1923 98 0.000042563 62 36 27%
1924 110 0.000046187 67 43 22%
1925 82 0.000035143 56 26 37%
1926 70 0.000030489 42 28 20%
1927 79 0.000034061 54 25 37%
1928 80 0.000035384 41 39 3%
1929 74 0.000033757 46 28 24%
1930 53 0.000023839 30 23 13%
1931 48 0.000022809 28 20 17%
1932 47 0.000022261 27 20 15%
1933 55 0.000027508 29 26 5%
1934 58 0.000027927 34 24 17%
1935 45 0.000021532 19 26 -16%
1936 41 0.000019735 19 22 -7%
1937 60 0.00002816 25 35 -17%
1938 44 0.000019886 15 29 -32%
1939 39 0.0000177 11 28 -44%
1940 40 0.000017371 15 25 -25%
1941 35 0.000014365 16 19 -9%
1942 35 0.000012812 17 18 -3%
1943 40 0.000014172 19 21 -5%
1944 25 0.000009293 11 14 -12%
1945 31 0.000011685 15 16 -3%
1946 35 0.000010954 14 21 -20%
1947 24 0.000006662 10 14 -17%
1948 29 0.0000084 6 23 -59%
1949 19 0.000005452 8 11 -16%
1950 18 0.000005138 5 13 -44%
1951 19 0.000005158 8 11 -16%
1952 18 0.000004739 10 8 11%
1953 22 0.000005709 9 13 -18%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 -100%
1956 20 0.000004851 5 15 -50%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 -100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%

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