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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Marla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marla” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marla” 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
1912 6 0.000006072 6 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1929 14 0.000006386 14 100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 100%
1931 13 0.000006178 13 100%
1932 41 0.000019419 41 100%
1933 33 0.000016505 33 100%
1934 31 0.000014927 31 100%
1935 55 0.000026317 55 100%
1936 100 0.000048133 100 100%
1937 132 0.000061952 132 100%
1938 168 0.00007593 168 100%
1939 115 0.000052191 115 100%
1940 147 0.000063839 147 100%
1941 198 0.000081267 198 100%
1942 269 0.000098469 269 100%
1943 182 0.00006448 182 100%
1944 189 0.000070258 189 100%
1945 229 0.00008632 229 100%
1946 299 0.000093575 299 100%
1947 418 0.000116036 418 100%
1948 446 0.000129181 446 100%
1949 458 0.000131429 458 100%
1950 681 0.000194385 681 100%
1951 716 0.000194368 716 100%
1952 822 0.000216429 822 100%
1953 957 0.000248336 957 100%
1954 1299 0.000326324 1299 100%
1955 1730 0.000430876 1725 5 99%
1956 1540 0.000373511 1534 6 99%
1957 1329 0.000316267 1329 100%
1958 1211 0.000292943 1211 100%
1959 1167 0.000280664 1167 100%
1960 1087 0.000261687 1087 100%
1961 1145 0.000276416 1138 7 99%
1962 1236 0.000306291 1236 100%
1963 1087 0.00027462 1087 100%
1964 971 0.000249768 971 100%
1965 906 0.0002499 901 5 99%
1966 962 0.000276782 957 5 99%
1967 1067 0.000314295 1067 100%
1968 1105 0.000327077 1105 100%
1969 1066 0.000306734 1066 100%
1970 1095 0.000303617 1090 5 99%
1971 956 0.000278526 956 100%
1972 772 0.000245626 772 100%
1973 788 0.000261196 788 100%
1974 592 0.000194737 592 100%
1975 568 0.000188117 568 100%
1976 484 0.00015951 484 100%
1977 494 0.000155517 494 100%
1978 444 0.000139892 444 100%
1979 425 0.000127743 425 100%
1980 417 0.000121062 417 100%
1981 360 0.000104065 360 100%
1982 333 0.000094927 328 5 97%
1983 284 0.000082002 284 100%
1984 271 0.000077678 271 100%
1985 237 0.000066403 237 100%
1986 217 0.000061005 217 100%
1987 240 0.000066563 240 100%
1988 232 0.000062787 232 100%
1989 191 0.000049682 191 100%
1990 250 0.000063251 250 100%
1991 237 0.000060843 237 100%
1992 189 0.000049202 189 100%
1993 160 0.000042437 160 100%
1994 167 0.000044921 167 100%
1995 143 0.000039048 143 100%
1996 133 0.000036466 133 100%
1997 123 0.000033924 123 100%
1998 118 0.000032081 118 100%
1999 96 0.000025989 96 100%
2000 114 0.000030159 114 100%
2001 112 0.000029919 112 100%
2002 102 0.000027285 102 100%
2003 86 0.000022618 86 100%
2004 97 0.000025387 97 100%
2005 89 0.000023148 89 100%
2006 73 0.000018452 73 100%
2007 97 0.000024264 97 100%
2008 68 0.0000173 68 100%
2009 67 0.000017538 67 100%
2010 85 0.000022999 85 100%
2011 68 0.00001859 68 100%
2012 71 0.000019413 71 100%
2013 53 0.000014538 53 100%
2014 86 0.000023203 86 100%
2015 67 0.000018104 67 100%
2016 69 0.000018808 69 100%
2017 71 0.000019854 71 100%
2018 63 0.000017919 63 100%
2019 77 0.000022184 77 100%
2020 68 0.000020356 68 100%
2021 75 0.000022137 75 100%
2022 80 0.000023647 80 100%
2023 88 0.000026576 88 100%
2024 79 0.000023734 79 100%

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