How popular is “Marlo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marlo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marlo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marlo” 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
1915	7	0.00000382		7	-100%
1917	8	0.000003987		8	-100%
1919	10	0.000004739		10	-100%
1920	9	0.000003978		9	-100%
1922	8	0.000003495		8	-100%
1923	10	0.000004343		10	-100%
1924	13	0.000005458		13	-100%
1925	10	0.000004286		10	-100%
1926	11	0.000004791		11	-100%
1927	10	0.000004312		10	-100%
1928	14	0.000006192		14	-100%
1929	17	0.000007755		17	-100%
1930	13	0.000005847		13	-100%
1931	20	0.000009504	8	12	-20%
1932	15	0.000007105		15	-100%
1933	17	0.000008502		17	-100%
1934	26	0.000012519	7	19	-46%
1935	35	0.000016747	7	28	-60%
1936	17	0.000008183		17	-100%
1937	19	0.000008917		19	-100%
1938	26	0.000011751	8	18	-38%
1939	21	0.000009531	6	15	-43%
1940	13	0.000005646		13	-100%
1941	24	0.00000985	8	16	-33%
1942	25	0.000009151	11	14	-12%
1943	30	0.000010629	14	16	-7%
1944	19	0.000007063	8	11	-16%
1945	19	0.000007162	8	11	-16%
1946	23	0.000007198	14	9	22%
1947	25	0.00000694	13	12	4%
1948	32	0.000009269	17	15	6%
1949	25	0.000007174	12	13	-4%
1950	22	0.00000628	6	16	-45%
1951	40	0.000010859	14	26	-30%
1952	47	0.000012375	14	33	-40%
1953	31	0.000008044	9	22	-42%
1954	51	0.000012812	20	31	-22%
1955	38	0.000009464	9	29	-53%
1956	39	0.000009459	14	25	-28%
1957	33	0.000007853	13	20	-21%
1958	33	0.000007983	6	27	-64%
1959	32	0.000007696	8	24	-50%
1960	36	0.000008667	8	28	-56%
1961	40	0.000009656	14	26	-30%
1962	52	0.000012886	30	22	15%
1963	36	0.000009095	16	20	-11%
1964	42	0.000010804	22	20	5%
1965	41	0.000011309	16	25	-22%
1966	128	0.000036828	101	27	58%
1967	381	0.000112227	353	28	85%
1968	573	0.000169606	545	28	90%
1969	534	0.000153655	498	36	87%
1970	635	0.00017607	593	42	87%
1971	529	0.000154122	481	48	82%
1972	407	0.000129494	323	84	59%
1973	329	0.000109053	251	78	53%
1974	276	0.00009079	207	69	50%
1975	243	0.00008048	191	52	57%
1976	250	0.000082391	168	82	34%
1977	202	0.000063592	137	65	36%
1978	168	0.000052932	101	67	20%
1979	162	0.000048693	94	68	16%
1980	150	0.000043548	95	55	27%
1981	112	0.000032376	62	50	11%
1982	111	0.000031642	74	37	33%
1983	105	0.000030318	56	49	7%
1984	85	0.000024364	48	37	13%
1985	82	0.000022975	56	26	37%
1986	59	0.000016587	35	24	19%
1987	73	0.000020246	37	36	1%
1988	89	0.000024086	38	51	-15%
1989	61	0.000015867	29	32	-5%
1990	60	0.00001518	31	29	3%
1991	63	0.000016173	32	31	2%
1992	70	0.000018223	46	24	31%
1993	48	0.000012731	23	25	-4%
1994	49	0.00001318	20	29	-18%
1995	66	0.000018022	30	36	-9%
1996	69	0.000018919	37	32	7%
1997	63	0.000017376	40	23	27%
1998	71	0.000019303	41	30	15%
1999	61	0.000016514	29	32	-5%
2000	68	0.00001799	36	32	6%
2001	60	0.000016028	31	29	3%
2002	60	0.00001605	32	28	7%
2003	73	0.000019199	36	37	-1%
2004	59	0.000015441	35	24	19%
2005	67	0.000017426	42	25	25%
2006	99	0.000025024	59	40	19%
2007	75	0.000018761	42	33	12%
2008	114	0.000029003	77	37	35%
2009	103	0.000026962	71	32	38%
2010	128	0.000034634	84	44	31%
2011	120	0.000032807	79	41	32%
2012	143	0.000039099	103	40	44%
2013	139	0.000038127	92	47	32%
2014	144	0.000038852	88	56	22%
2015	124	0.000033505	77	47	24%
2016	164	0.000044703	92	72	12%
2017	124	0.000034674	75	49	21%
2018	164	0.000046645	99	65	21%
2019	193	0.000055605	116	77	20%
2020	164	0.000049093	84	80	2%
2021	184	0.00005431	102	82	11%
2022	198	0.000058526	122	76	23%
2023	205	0.000061911	100	105	-2%
2024	218	0.000065495	119	99	9%

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