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How popular is “Myrna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Myrna” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Myrna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Myrna” 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 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1890 8 0.000026543 8 100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1893 8 0.000024599 8 100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 100%
1896 15 0.00004196 15 100%
1897 14 0.000040351 14 100%
1898 14 0.000036702 14 100%
1899 15 0.000044217 15 100%
1900 30 0.000066628 30 100%
1901 22 0.000063618 22 100%
1902 20 0.000051715 20 100%
1903 22 0.000057712 22 100%
1904 21 0.000052047 21 100%
1905 20 0.000047178 20 100%
1906 25 0.00005835 25 100%
1907 21 0.000045123 21 100%
1908 41 0.000083905 41 100%
1909 24 0.000046946 24 100%
1910 28 0.000047401 28 100%
1911 61 0.00009468 61 100%
1912 42 0.000042507 42 100%
1913 62 0.000054524 62 100%
1914 94 0.000066368 94 100%
1915 128 0.000069853 128 100%
1916 153 0.000079094 153 100%
1917 115 0.000057307 115 100%
1918 132 0.000060798 132 100%
1919 152 0.00007203 152 100%
1920 134 0.000059223 134 100%
1921 139 0.000059542 139 100%
1922 144 0.000062905 144 100%
1923 131 0.000056895 131 100%
1924 129 0.000054165 129 100%
1925 136 0.000058286 136 100%
1926 157 0.000068383 157 100%
1927 203 0.000087524 203 100%
1928 335 0.000148169 335 100%
1929 429 0.000195697 429 100%
1930 483 0.000217246 483 100%
1931 415 0.000197207 415 100%
1932 422 0.000199878 422 100%
1933 571 0.000285579 571 100%
1934 842 0.000405428 836 6 99%
1935 1059 0.000506723 1059 100%
1936 1402 0.000674824 1396 6 99%
1937 1658 0.000778159 1652 6 99%
1938 1808 0.000817148 1801 7 99%
1939 1600 0.000726137 1600 100%
1940 1478 0.000641859 1471 7 99%
1941 1376 0.000564762 1371 5 99%
1942 1104 0.000404126 1104 100%
1943 844 0.000299019 839 5 99%
1944 635 0.000236053 635 100%
1945 568 0.000214105 568 100%
1946 620 0.000194035 620 100%
1947 646 0.000179329 646 100%
1948 493 0.000142794 493 100%
1949 422 0.000121098 422 100%
1950 448 0.000127877 448 100%
1951 478 0.000129759 478 100%
1952 362 0.000095313 362 100%
1953 388 0.000100684 388 100%
1954 384 0.000096465 384 100%
1955 429 0.000106847 429 100%
1956 452 0.000109628 452 100%
1957 431 0.000102567 431 100%
1958 411 0.000099422 411 100%
1959 402 0.000096681 402 100%
1960 373 0.000089797 373 100%
1961 347 0.00008377 347 100%
1962 335 0.000083016 335 100%
1963 306 0.000077308 306 100%
1964 291 0.000074853 291 100%
1965 234 0.000064544 234 100%
1966 207 0.000059557 207 100%
1967 192 0.000056555 192 100%
1968 158 0.000046768 158 100%
1969 187 0.000053808 187 100%
1970 159 0.000044087 159 100%
1971 164 0.000047781 164 100%
1972 149 0.000047407 149 100%
1973 127 0.000042096 127 100%
1974 169 0.000055592 169 100%
1975 125 0.000041399 125 100%
1976 134 0.000044162 134 100%
1977 130 0.000040926 130 100%
1978 104 0.000032768 104 100%
1979 100 0.000030057 100 100%
1980 110 0.000031935 110 100%
1981 87 0.000025149 87 100%
1982 96 0.000027366 96 100%
1983 81 0.000023388 81 100%
1984 80 0.000022931 80 100%
1985 69 0.000019333 69 100%
1986 66 0.000018555 66 100%
1987 63 0.000017473 63 100%
1988 73 0.000019756 73 100%
1989 62 0.000016127 62 100%
1990 62 0.000015686 62 100%
1991 72 0.000018484 72 100%
1992 62 0.00001614 62 100%
1993 51 0.000013527 51 100%
1994 55 0.000014794 55 100%
1995 43 0.000011742 43 100%
1996 49 0.000013435 49 100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 100%
1998 39 0.000010603 39 100%
1999 41 0.000011099 41 100%
2000 37 0.000009789 37 100%
2001 33 0.000008816 33 100%
2002 37 0.000009898 37 100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 100%
2004 33 0.000008637 33 100%
2005 32 0.000008323 32 100%
2006 29 0.00000733 29 100%
2007 19 0.000004753 19 100%
2008 25 0.00000636 25 100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 19 0.000005194 19 100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2013 22 0.000006035 22 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 100%
2017 14 0.000003915 14 100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 100%
2019 19 0.000005474 19 100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 100%
2022 11 0.000003251 11 100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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