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How popular is “Malin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Malin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malin” 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
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 14 0.000003806 8 6 14%
1999 10 0.000002707 5 5 0%
2000 19 0.000005027 10 9 5%
2001 25 0.000006678 16 9 28%
2002 18 0.000004815 9 9 0%
2003 22 0.000005786 13 9 18%
2004 22 0.000005758 13 9 18%
2005 27 0.000007022 19 8 41%
2006 29 0.00000733 18 11 24%
2007 32 0.000008005 22 10 38%
2008 32 0.000008141 25 7 56%
2009 42 0.000010994 34 8 62%
2010 46 0.000012447 38 8 65%
2011 67 0.000018317 61 6 82%
2012 78 0.000021327 66 12 69%
2013 61 0.000016732 53 8 74%
2014 40 0.000010792 40 100%
2015 47 0.0000127 40 7 70%
2016 53 0.000014447 48 5 81%
2017 40 0.000011185 40 100%
2018 51 0.000014506 38 13 49%
2019 17 0.000004898 17 100%
2020 34 0.000010178 25 9 47%
2021 38 0.000011216 28 10 47%
2022 40 0.000011823 33 7 65%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 100%
2024 21 0.000006309 12 9 14%

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