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How popular is “Marlena” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marlena” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marlena” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marlena” 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
1925 5 0.000002143 5 100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 100%
1938 30 0.000013559 30 100%
1939 17 0.000007715 17 100%
1940 12 0.000005211 12 100%
1941 22 0.00000903 22 100%
1942 43 0.00001574 43 100%
1943 32 0.000011337 32 100%
1944 37 0.000013754 37 100%
1945 36 0.00001357 36 100%
1946 35 0.000010954 35 100%
1947 43 0.000011937 43 100%
1948 60 0.000017379 60 100%
1949 65 0.000018653 65 100%
1950 67 0.000019125 67 100%
1951 52 0.000014116 52 100%
1952 92 0.000024223 92 100%
1953 89 0.000023095 89 100%
1954 104 0.000026126 104 100%
1955 83 0.000020672 83 100%
1956 64 0.000015523 64 100%
1957 64 0.00001523 64 100%
1958 57 0.000013788 57 100%
1959 60 0.00001443 60 100%
1960 71 0.000017093 71 100%
1961 80 0.000019313 80 100%
1962 86 0.000021312 86 100%
1963 93 0.000023496 93 100%
1964 107 0.000027523 107 100%
1965 98 0.000027031 98 100%
1966 96 0.000027621 96 100%
1967 108 0.000031812 108 100%
1968 116 0.000034336 116 100%
1969 140 0.000040284 140 100%
1970 126 0.000034937 126 100%
1971 115 0.000033505 115 100%
1972 102 0.000032453 102 100%
1973 113 0.000037456 113 100%
1974 125 0.000041118 125 100%
1975 135 0.000044711 135 100%
1976 168 0.000055367 168 100%
1977 423 0.000133166 423 100%
1978 470 0.000148084 470 100%
1979 387 0.000116321 387 100%
1980 301 0.000087386 301 100%
1981 255 0.000073713 255 100%
1982 290 0.000082669 290 100%
1983 244 0.000070452 244 100%
1984 229 0.000065639 229 100%
1985 231 0.000064722 231 100%
1986 252 0.000070845 252 100%
1987 216 0.000059907 216 100%
1988 200 0.000054127 200 100%
1989 207 0.000053844 207 100%
1990 194 0.000049083 194 100%
1991 238 0.0000611 238 100%
1992 249 0.000064822 249 100%
1993 249 0.000066043 249 100%
1994 238 0.000064019 238 100%
1995 188 0.000051336 188 100%
1996 211 0.000057853 211 100%
1997 201 0.000055437 201 100%
1998 219 0.00005954 219 100%
1999 179 0.000048459 179 100%
2000 156 0.000041271 156 100%
2001 139 0.000037132 139 100%
2002 140 0.00003745 140 100%
2003 104 0.000027352 104 100%
2004 95 0.000024863 95 100%
2005 122 0.000031731 122 100%
2006 113 0.000028563 113 100%
2007 97 0.000024264 97 100%
2008 108 0.000027476 108 100%
2009 100 0.000026177 100 100%
2010 72 0.000019482 72 100%
2011 77 0.000021051 77 100%
2012 83 0.000022694 83 100%
2013 100 0.00002743 100 100%
2014 92 0.000024822 92 100%
2015 73 0.000019725 73 100%
2016 82 0.000022351 82 100%
2017 62 0.000017337 62 100%
2018 78 0.000022185 78 100%
2019 73 0.000021032 73 100%
2020 72 0.000021553 72 100%
2021 56 0.000016529 56 100%
2022 67 0.000019804 67 100%
2023 53 0.000016006 53 100%
2024 44 0.000013219 44 100%

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