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How popular is “Madelyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Madelyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Madelyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Madelyn” 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
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1893 12 0.000036898 12 100%
1894 10 0.000029526 10 100%
1895 15 0.000042733 15 100%
1896 26 0.000072731 26 100%
1897 20 0.000057644 20 100%
1898 25 0.000065539 25 100%
1899 28 0.000082539 28 100%
1900 39 0.000086617 39 100%
1901 21 0.000060727 21 100%
1902 26 0.00006723 26 100%
1903 47 0.000123295 47 100%
1904 37 0.000091701 37 100%
1905 34 0.000080203 34 100%
1906 57 0.000133037 57 100%
1907 44 0.000094544 44 100%
1908 43 0.000087998 43 100%
1909 69 0.00013497 69 100%
1910 65 0.000110037 65 100%
1911 71 0.000110201 71 100%
1912 125 0.00012651 125 100%
1913 155 0.00013631 155 100%
1914 227 0.000160272 227 100%
1915 209 0.000114056 209 100%
1916 246 0.00012717 246 100%
1917 266 0.000132553 266 100%
1918 275 0.000126663 275 100%
1919 285 0.000135055 285 100%
1920 302 0.000133472 302 100%
1921 331 0.000141786 331 100%
1922 305 0.000133237 305 100%
1923 310 0.000134637 310 100%
1924 315 0.000132263 315 100%
1925 300 0.000128573 300 100%
1926 293 0.000127619 293 100%
1927 265 0.000114256 265 100%
1928 239 0.000105708 239 100%
1929 209 0.00009534 209 100%
1930 188 0.000084559 188 100%
1931 164 0.000077932 164 100%
1932 164 0.000077678 164 100%
1933 138 0.000069019 138 100%
1934 175 0.000084264 175 100%
1935 124 0.000059333 124 100%
1936 113 0.00005439 113 100%
1937 165 0.00007744 165 100%
1938 186 0.000084065 186 100%
1939 211 0.000095759 211 100%
1940 185 0.000080341 185 100%
1941 225 0.000092348 225 100%
1942 278 0.000101764 278 100%
1943 218 0.000077235 218 100%
1944 197 0.000073232 197 100%
1945 174 0.000065588 174 100%
1946 270 0.000084499 270 100%
1947 250 0.0000694 250 100%
1948 244 0.000070673 244 100%
1949 256 0.000073462 256 100%
1950 248 0.000070789 248 100%
1951 223 0.000060536 223 100%
1952 194 0.000051079 194 100%
1953 226 0.000058646 226 100%
1954 207 0.000052001 207 100%
1955 185 0.000046076 185 100%
1956 150 0.000036381 150 100%
1957 178 0.000042359 178 100%
1958 177 0.000042817 177 100%
1959 172 0.000041366 172 100%
1960 142 0.000034185 142 100%
1961 160 0.000038626 160 100%
1962 121 0.000029985 121 100%
1963 114 0.000028801 114 100%
1964 125 0.000032153 125 100%
1965 115 0.00003172 115 100%
1966 92 0.00002647 92 100%
1967 86 0.000025332 86 100%
1968 90 0.00002664 90 100%
1969 95 0.000027336 95 100%
1970 94 0.000026064 94 100%
1971 69 0.000020103 69 100%
1972 97 0.000030862 97 100%
1973 75 0.00002486 75 100%
1974 89 0.000029276 89 100%
1975 83 0.000027489 83 100%
1976 82 0.000027024 82 100%
1977 82 0.000025815 82 100%
1978 98 0.000030877 98 100%
1979 101 0.000030358 101 100%
1980 84 0.000024387 84 100%
1981 70 0.000020235 70 100%
1982 87 0.000024801 87 100%
1983 64 0.000018479 64 100%
1984 51 0.000014618 51 100%
1985 65 0.000018212 65 100%
1986 197 0.000055383 197 100%
1987 181 0.000050199 181 100%
1988 170 0.000046008 170 100%
1989 237 0.000061647 237 100%
1990 284 0.000071854 284 100%
1991 351 0.000090109 351 100%
1992 404 0.000105173 404 100%
1993 475 0.000125985 475 100%
1994 561 0.000150902 561 100%
1995 717 0.000195786 717 100%
1996 865 0.000237169 865 100%
1997 1160 0.000319934 1160 100%
1998 1928 0.000524168 1928 100%
1999 1896 0.000513283 1896 100%
2000 2684 0.000710071 2684 100%
2001 2844 0.000759739 2844 100%
2002 2858 0.00076452 2852 6 100%
2003 2985 0.000785047 2985 100%
2004 3020 0.000790385 3006 14 99%
2005 3029 0.000787808 3021 8 99%
2006 2949 0.000745414 2949 100%
2007 3216 0.000804466 3216 100%
2008 4571 0.001162908 4566 5 100%
2009 4496 0.001176909 4496 100%
2010 3621 0.000979777 3621 100%
2011 3604 0.000985294 3604 100%
2012 3794 0.001037358 3794 100%
2013 3940 0.001080735 3940 100%
2014 4312 0.001163401 4312 100%
2015 4486 0.001212134 4486 100%
2016 4245 0.001157086 4240 5 100%
2017 3972 0.001110678 3967 5 100%
2018 3651 0.001038426 3651 100%
2019 3580 0.001031423 3580 100%
2020 3549 0.001062391 3549 100%
2021 3427 0.001011526 3427 100%
2022 3722 0.001100163 3722 100%
2023 3643 0.001100207 3643 100%
2024 3371 0.001012768 3364 7 100%

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