How popular is “Mafalda” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Mafalda” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Mafalda” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1902	5	0.000012929	5	100%
1908	5	0.000010232	5	100%
1909	8	0.000015649	8	100%
1910	7	0.00001185	7	100%
1911	13	0.000020178	13	100%
1912	23	0.000023278	23	100%
1913	36	0.000031659	36	100%
1914	43	0.00003036	43	100%
1915	76	0.000041475	76	100%
1916	54	0.000027915	54	100%
1917	76	0.000037872	76	100%
1918	61	0.000028096	61	100%
1919	55	0.000026063	55	100%
1920	55	0.000024308	55	100%
1921	72	0.000030842	72	100%
1922	66	0.000028832	66	100%
1923	81	0.000035179	81	100%
1924	71	0.000029812	71	100%
1925	85	0.000036429	85	100%
1926	69	0.000030054	69	100%
1927	73	0.000031474	73	100%
1928	63	0.000027865	63	100%
1929	39	0.000017791	39	100%
1930	32	0.000014393	32	100%
1931	30	0.000014256	30	100%
1932	16	0.000007578	16	100%
1933	15	0.000007502	15	100%
1934	13	0.00000626	13	100%
1935	11	0.000005263	11	100%
1936	12	0.000005776	12	100%
1937	14	0.000006571	14	100%

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