How popular is “Marion” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marion” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marion” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marion” 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
1880	304	0.001508805	115	189	-24%
1881	272	0.001411608	110	162	-19%
1882	298	0.001345172	141	157	-5%
1883	347	0.001599476	184	163	6%
1884	365	0.001499213	181	184	-1%
1885	339	0.001407492	198	141	17%
1886	455	0.001782105	273	182	20%
1887	385	0.001556235	254	131	32%
1888	484	0.001616167	322	162	33%
1889	484	0.001675053	331	153	37%
1890	523	0.00173523	386	137	48%
1891	534	0.00186275	413	121	55%
1892	663	0.00198281	497	166	50%
1893	671	0.0020632	532	139	59%
1894	741	0.002187841	587	154	58%
1895	1004	0.002860236	856	148	71%
1896	1159	0.003242103	987	172	70%
1897	1147	0.003305885	994	153	73%
1898	1251	0.003279548	1085	166	73%
1899	1125	0.003316295	973	152	73%
1900	1386	0.003078235	1197	189	73%
1901	1122	0.003244537	963	159	72%
1902	1209	0.003126188	1033	176	71%
1903	1230	0.003226653	1042	188	69%
1904	1307	0.003239278	1109	198	70%
1905	1311	0.00309255	1141	170	74%
1906	1364	0.003183561	1183	181	73%
1907	1477	0.003173682	1251	226	69%
1908	1582	0.003237498	1349	233	71%
1909	1692	0.003309704	1445	247	71%
1910	1989	0.003367129	1703	286	71%
1911	2090	0.003243941	1744	346	67%
1912	3202	0.003240687	2522	680	58%
1913	3625	0.003187906	2854	771	57%
1914	4532	0.003199788	3550	982	57%
1915	5751	0.003138462	4456	1295	55%
1916	6390	0.003303321	5033	1357	58%
1917	6787	0.003382085	5371	1416	58%
1918	7118	0.003278506	5583	1535	57%
1919	6646	0.003149397	5158	1488	55%
1920	7349	0.003247971	5745	1604	56%
1921	7530	0.003225523	5814	1716	54%
1922	7298	0.003188075	5667	1631	55%
1923	7381	0.003205673	5711	1670	55%
1924	7660	0.003216312	6047	1613	58%
1925	7194	0.003083184	5577	1617	55%
1926	6979	0.00303976	5353	1626	53%
1927	6803	0.002933139	5211	1592	53%
1928	6935	0.003067311	5420	1515	56%
1929	6084	0.002775344	4633	1451	52%
1930	5695	0.002561521	4306	1389	51%
1931	5074	0.002411152	3763	1311	48%
1932	4809	0.002277753	3493	1316	45%
1933	4394	0.002197608	3199	1195	46%
1934	4014	0.001932766	2884	1130	44%
1935	3994	0.001911096	2813	1181	41%
1936	3629	0.001746746	2580	1049	42%
1937	3425	0.001607476	2309	1116	35%
1938	3289	0.001486504	2150	1139	31%
1939	3102	0.001407797	2069	1033	33%
1940	3160	0.001372311	2111	1049	34%
1941	3011	0.001235827	1986	1025	32%
1942	3204	0.001172845	2152	1052	34%
1943	3190	0.00113018	2124	1066	33%
1944	2758	0.001025249	1803	955	31%
1945	2443	0.000920876	1602	841	31%
1946	2698	0.000844363	1753	945	30%
1947	2809	0.000779775	1847	962	32%
1948	2526	0.00073164	1592	934	26%
1949	2359	0.000676945	1520	839	29%
1950	2207	0.000629967	1387	820	26%
1951	2194	0.000595591	1339	855	22%
1952	2046	0.000538704	1264	782	24%
1953	2052	0.000532483	1275	777	24%
1954	2170	0.000545129	1337	833	23%
1955	1859	0.000463004	1147	712	23%
1956	1848	0.000448213	1103	745	19%
1957	1665	0.000396226	1055	610	27%
1958	1637	0.000395994	1055	582	29%
1959	1466	0.000352574	921	545	26%
1960	1351	0.000325243	810	541	20%
1961	1315	0.000317456	750	565	14%
1962	1264	0.00031323	774	490	22%
1963	1195	0.000301905	737	458	23%
1964	1182	0.000304043	726	456	23%
1965	997	0.000275	567	430	14%
1966	885	0.000254628	533	352	20%
1967	809	0.000238299	466	343	15%
1968	802	0.00023739	435	367	8%
1969	755	0.000217246	414	341	10%
1970	687	0.000190489	383	304	11%
1971	705	0.000205398	361	344	2%
1972	593	0.000188674	293	300	-1%
1973	566	0.000187611	268	298	-5%
1974	500	0.000164474	234	266	-6%
1975	479	0.000158641	234	245	-2%
1976	434	0.000143031	192	242	-12%
1977	456	0.000143554	229	227	0%
1978	390	0.000122878	184	206	-6%
1979	417	0.000125338	185	232	-11%
1980	394	0.000114385	190	204	-4%
1981	398	0.00011505	211	187	6%
1982	394	0.000112316	211	183	7%
1983	312	0.000090086	176	136	13%
1984	334	0.000095736	165	169	-1%
1985	323	0.000090499	168	155	4%
1986	326	0.000091648	162	164	-1%
1987	288	0.000079875	151	137	5%
1988	343	0.000092827	175	168	2%
1989	301	0.000078295	152	149	1%
1990	302	0.000076408	166	136	10%
1991	303	0.000077787	158	145	4%
1992	304	0.00007914	174	130	14%
1993	217	0.000057555	116	101	7%
1994	209	0.000056218	123	86	18%
1995	198	0.000054067	108	90	9%
1996	232	0.000063611	115	117	-1%
1997	260	0.000071709	129	131	-1%
1998	259	0.000070415	124	135	-4%
1999	211	0.000057122	102	109	-3%
2000	244	0.000064552	141	103	16%
2001	226	0.000060373	120	106	6%
2002	250	0.000066875	130	120	4%
2003	277	0.00007285	119	158	-14%
2004	250	0.000065429	112	138	-10%
2005	270	0.000070224	103	167	-24%
2006	253	0.00006395	97	156	-23%
2007	259	0.000064788	113	146	-13%
2008	236	0.000060041	96	140	-19%
2009	229	0.000059945	110	119	-4%
2010	222	0.000060069	98	124	-12%
2011	213	0.000058232	111	102	4%
2012	219	0.000059879	109	110	-0%
2013	237	0.000065009	140	97	18%
2014	224	0.000060436	142	82	27%
2015	227	0.000061336	150	77	32%
2016	236	0.000064328	159	77	35%
2017	219	0.000061238	142	77	30%
2018	210	0.000059729	134	76	28%
2019	209	0.000060214	139	70	33%
2020	163	0.000048794	106	57	30%
2021	167	0.000049292	127	40	52%
2022	182	0.000053796	121	61	33%
2023	184	0.000055569	125	59	36%
2024	168	0.000050473	107	61	27%

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