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How popular is “Emelda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Emelda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Emelda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Emelda” 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
1907 7 0.000015041 7 100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 100%
1915 22 0.000012006 22 100%
1916 20 0.000010339 20 100%
1917 19 0.000009468 19 100%
1918 18 0.000008291 18 100%
1919 23 0.000010899 23 100%
1920 28 0.000012375 28 100%
1921 30 0.000012851 30 100%
1922 25 0.000010921 25 100%
1923 33 0.000014332 33 100%
1924 33 0.000013856 33 100%
1925 25 0.000010714 25 100%
1926 34 0.000014809 34 100%
1927 30 0.000012935 30 100%
1928 26 0.0000115 26 100%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 100%
1930 24 0.000010795 24 100%
1931 23 0.00001093 23 100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 100%
1935 24 0.000011484 24 100%
1936 22 0.000010589 22 100%
1937 22 0.000010325 22 100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 100%
1941 13 0.000005336 13 100%
1942 19 0.000006955 19 100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 100%
1944 22 0.000008178 22 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 22 0.000006885 22 100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 100%
1948 27 0.00000782 27 100%
1949 19 0.000005452 19 100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 21 0.000005275 21 100%
1955 24 0.000005977 24 100%
1956 17 0.000004123 17 100%
1957 20 0.000004759 20 100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 100%
1959 18 0.000004329 18 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 100%
1962 19 0.000004708 19 100%
1963 15 0.00000379 15 100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 100%
1969 17 0.000004892 17 100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1989 8 0.000002081 8 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%

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