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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Malachy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malachy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Malachy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malachy” 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
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 -100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 -100%
1999 16 0.000004332 16 -100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 -100%
2001 28 0.00000748 28 -100%
2002 35 0.000009363 35 -100%
2003 31 0.000008153 31 -100%
2004 21 0.000005496 21 -100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 -100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 -100%
2007 27 0.000006754 27 -100%
2008 25 0.00000636 25 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 27 0.000007306 27 -100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 -100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 -100%
2013 19 0.000005212 19 -100%
2014 19 0.000005126 19 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 -100%
2017 18 0.000005033 18 -100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 -100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 -100%
2020 20 0.000005987 20 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 -100%
2023 18 0.000005436 18 -100%
2024 15 0.000004507 15 -100%

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