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How popular is “Marillyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marillyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marillyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marillyn” 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
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 100%
1924 25 0.000010497 25 100%
1925 23 0.000009857 23 100%
1926 29 0.000012631 29 100%
1927 40 0.000017246 40 100%
1928 33 0.000014596 33 100%
1929 33 0.000015054 33 100%
1930 19 0.000008546 19 100%
1931 24 0.000011405 24 100%
1932 33 0.00001563 33 100%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 100%
1934 17 0.000008186 17 100%
1935 17 0.000008134 17 100%
1936 11 0.000005295 11 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 100%

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