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How popular is “Marilyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marilyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marilyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marilyn” 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
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 12 0.000026651 12 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1906 24 0.000056016 24 100%
1907 17 0.000036529 17 100%
1908 25 0.000051161 25 100%
1909 21 0.000041078 21 100%
1910 18 0.000030472 18 100%
1911 31 0.000048116 31 100%
1912 56 0.000056677 56 100%
1913 58 0.000051007 58 100%
1914 75 0.000052953 75 100%
1915 109 0.000059484 109 100%
1916 146 0.000075475 146 100%
1917 164 0.000081724 164 100%
1918 245 0.000112845 245 100%
1919 404 0.000191447 404 100%
1920 522 0.000230704 522 100%
1921 696 0.000298136 696 100%
1922 1703 0.000743942 1698 5 99%
1923 2286 0.000992842 2286 100%
1924 2865 0.001202968 2860 5 100%
1925 3419 0.001465305 3419 100%
1926 4380 0.001907744 4370 10 100%
1927 5575 0.002403682 5554 21 99%
1928 6086 0.002691803 6066 20 99%
1929 6763 0.003085084 6731 32 99%
1930 9317 0.00419064 9288 29 99%
1931 9695 0.00460704 9664 31 99%
1932 10605 0.005022993 10567 38 99%
1933 9150 0.004576265 9126 24 99%
1934 9420 0.00453579 9382 38 99%
1935 10451 0.005000718 10418 33 99%
1936 11102 0.005343722 11064 38 99%
1937 9784 0.004591983 9739 45 99%
1938 9781 0.004420643 9745 36 99%
1939 9570 0.004343205 9538 32 99%
1940 8744 0.003797306 8703 41 99%
1941 8589 0.003525247 8557 32 99%
1942 9939 0.003638237 9907 32 99%
1943 10174 0.003604531 10144 30 99%
1944 9760 0.003628146 9738 22 100%
1945 9551 0.003600198 9534 17 100%
1946 10732 0.003358676 10711 21 100%
1947 11905 0.003304813 11881 24 100%
1948 9953 0.002882824 9937 16 100%
1949 9879 0.002834902 9865 14 100%
1950 9300 0.002654596 9285 15 100%
1951 9168 0.002488776 9148 20 100%
1952 9815 0.002584252 9803 12 100%
1953 10764 0.0027932 10742 22 100%
1954 10830 0.002720622 10814 16 100%
1955 8428 0.002099087 8409 19 100%
1956 6951 0.001685893 6926 25 99%
1957 5752 0.001368825 5743 9 100%
1958 4963 0.00120056 4948 15 99%
1959 4357 0.001047862 4343 14 99%
1960 4080 0.00098223 4071 9 100%
1961 3813 0.000920503 3797 16 99%
1962 3621 0.000897315 3608 13 99%
1963 3326 0.000840281 3314 12 99%
1964 2799 0.000719981 2792 7 99%
1965 2503 0.000690397 2490 13 99%
1966 2000 0.000575431 1994 6 99%
1967 1971 0.000580577 1960 11 99%
1968 1584 0.000468859 1577 7 99%
1969 1407 0.000404854 1398 9 99%
1970 1262 0.000349922 1256 6 99%
1971 1223 0.000356315 1216 7 99%
1972 866 0.000275533 856 10 98%
1973 788 0.000261196 776 12 97%
1974 731 0.000240461 725 6 98%
1975 657 0.000217593 651 6 98%
1976 648 0.000213558 648 100%
1977 608 0.000191406 608 100%
1978 640 0.000201647 634 6 98%
1979 568 0.000170724 559 9 97%
1980 579 0.000168094 579 100%
1981 579 0.000167371 579 100%
1982 582 0.000165908 582 100%
1983 612 0.000176708 612 100%
1984 517 0.00014819 509 8 97%
1985 528 0.000147936 522 6 98%
1986 493 0.000138597 488 5 98%
1987 532 0.000147548 532 100%
1988 552 0.000149389 547 5 98%
1989 636 0.000165433 628 8 97%
1990 582 0.000147249 582 100%
1991 584 0.000149926 584 100%
1992 680 0.000177025 680 100%
1993 604 0.0001602 599 5 98%
1994 552 0.000148481 552 100%
1995 581 0.00015865 576 5 98%
1996 611 0.000167526 611 100%
1997 573 0.000158036 567 6 98%
1998 518 0.000140829 518 100%
1999 481 0.000130216 481 100%
2000 524 0.000138628 524 100%
2001 553 0.000147727 553 100%
2002 507 0.000135623 507 100%
2003 514 0.000135181 514 100%
2004 499 0.000130597 499 100%
2005 513 0.000133425 513 100%
2006 598 0.000151156 598 100%
2007 599 0.000149837 599 100%
2008 545 0.000138653 545 100%
2009 524 0.000137166 524 100%
2010 536 0.000145032 536 100%
2011 534 0.00014599 534 100%
2012 744 0.000203425 744 100%
2013 837 0.000229588 837 100%
2014 797 0.000215035 797 100%
2015 748 0.000202112 748 100%
2016 634 0.000172813 634 100%
2017 585 0.000163582 585 100%
2018 498 0.000141642 498 100%
2019 467 0.000134546 467 100%
2020 457 0.000136803 457 100%
2021 407 0.000120132 407 100%
2022 422 0.000124736 422 100%
2023 378 0.000114158 378 100%
2024 432 0.000129788 432 100%

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