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How popular is “Marlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marlene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marlene” 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
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 100%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 100%
1912 8 0.000008097 8 100%
1913 22 0.000019347 22 100%
1914 21 0.000014827 21 100%
1915 33 0.000018009 33 100%
1916 25 0.000012924 25 100%
1917 40 0.000019933 40 100%
1918 46 0.000021187 46 100%
1919 47 0.000022272 47 100%
1920 56 0.00002475 56 100%
1921 43 0.000018419 43 100%
1922 59 0.000025774 59 100%
1923 114 0.000049512 114 100%
1924 73 0.000030652 73 100%
1925 58 0.000024857 58 100%
1926 63 0.00002744 63 100%
1927 80 0.000034492 80 100%
1928 99 0.000043787 99 100%
1929 129 0.000058846 129 100%
1930 306 0.000137634 306 100%
1931 2597 0.001234088 2585 12 99%
1932 3226 0.001527975 3219 7 100%
1933 4060 0.002030561 4045 15 99%
1934 3772 0.001816242 3755 17 99%
1935 4842 0.002316857 4830 12 100%
1936 5354 0.002577039 5332 22 99%
1937 5053 0.002371554 5037 16 99%
1938 4492 0.002030215 4473 19 99%
1939 3788 0.001719129 3773 15 99%
1940 3135 0.001361454 3118 17 99%
1941 3088 0.001267431 3068 20 99%
1942 3261 0.001193711 3253 8 100%
1943 2865 0.001015036 2857 8 99%
1944 2571 0.000955734 2566 5 100%
1945 2541 0.000957816 2528 13 99%
1946 2818 0.000881918 2818 100%
1947 2989 0.000829743 2989 100%
1948 3058 0.00088573 3053 5 100%
1949 3044 0.000873514 3044 100%
1950 3136 0.000895141 3131 5 100%
1951 3014 0.00081819 3007 7 100%
1952 3132 0.000824643 3132 100%
1953 2767 0.000718022 2767 100%
1954 2656 0.000667218 2651 5 100%
1955 2572 0.000640585 2566 6 100%
1956 2135 0.000517822 2128 7 99%
1957 2126 0.000505932 2126 100%
1958 1964 0.000475096 1964 100%
1959 1780 0.000428091 1780 100%
1960 1651 0.000397466 1645 6 99%
1961 1645 0.000397122 1637 8 99%
1962 1563 0.000387325 1557 6 99%
1963 1561 0.000394371 1554 7 99%
1964 1296 0.000333367 1289 7 99%
1965 1212 0.000334303 1212 100%
1966 1141 0.000328283 1141 100%
1967 1022 0.00030104 1022 100%
1968 1004 0.000297181 1004 100%
1969 889 0.000255804 889 100%
1970 868 0.000240676 862 6 99%
1971 740 0.000215595 735 5 99%
1972 655 0.0002084 655 100%
1973 534 0.000177004 529 5 98%
1974 548 0.000180263 548 100%
1975 493 0.000163278 493 100%
1976 492 0.000162146 492 100%
1977 492 0.000154888 492 100%
1978 456 0.000143673 456 100%
1979 466 0.000140066 466 100%
1980 440 0.00012774 440 100%
1981 449 0.000129792 449 100%
1982 488 0.000139112 482 6 98%
1983 464 0.000133975 458 6 97%
1984 437 0.00012526 437 100%
1985 445 0.000124681 445 100%
1986 483 0.000135786 478 5 98%
1987 497 0.000137841 492 5 98%
1988 489 0.000132339 489 100%
1989 609 0.00015841 601 8 97%
1990 679 0.000171791 670 9 97%
1991 762 0.000195622 752 10 97%
1992 722 0.000187959 716 6 98%
1993 618 0.000163914 612 6 98%
1994 568 0.000152785 561 7 98%
1995 577 0.000157558 577 100%
1996 519 0.000142301 519 100%
1997 448 0.000123561 448 100%
1998 429 0.000116633 429 100%
1999 432 0.000116951 432 100%
2000 519 0.000137305 519 100%
2001 487 0.000130096 487 100%
2002 510 0.000136426 510 100%
2003 559 0.000147016 559 100%
2004 606 0.0001586 606 100%
2005 537 0.000139668 537 100%
2006 591 0.000149386 591 100%
2007 591 0.000147836 591 100%
2008 491 0.000124915 491 100%
2009 392 0.000102613 392 100%
2010 293 0.00007928 293 100%
2011 299 0.000081743 299 100%
2012 257 0.000070269 257 100%
2013 230 0.000063089 230 100%
2014 210 0.000056659 210 100%
2015 216 0.000058364 216 100%
2016 199 0.000054243 199 100%
2017 194 0.000054248 194 100%
2018 163 0.000046361 163 100%
2019 160 0.000046097 160 100%
2020 135 0.000040412 135 100%
2021 141 0.000041618 141 100%
2022 191 0.000056457 191 100%
2023 167 0.000050435 167 100%
2024 137 0.00004116 137 100%

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