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How popular is “Carmelia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carmelia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carmelia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carmelia” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 100%
1920 16 0.000007071 16 100%
1921 13 0.000005569 13 100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 100%
1925 19 0.000008143 19 100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 100%
1960 24 0.000005778 24 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 20 0.000004956 20 100%
1963 17 0.000004295 17 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 100%
1969 17 0.000004892 17 100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 100%
1976 17 0.000005603 17 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1979 11 0.000003306 11 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%

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