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How popular is “Myrlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Myrlene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Myrlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Myrlene” 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
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 21 0.000009947 21 100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 100%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 100%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%

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