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How popular is “Marlowe” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marlowe” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marlowe” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marlowe” 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 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1913 14 0.000012312 14 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 15 0.000008186 15 -100%
1916 16 0.000008271 16 -100%
1917 12 0.00000598 12 -100%
1918 24 0.000011054 6 18 -50%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 17 0.000007513 17 -100%
1921 19 0.000008139 6 13 -37%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 22 0.000009555 7 15 -36%
1924 17 0.000007138 7 10 -18%
1925 18 0.000007714 18 -100%
1926 18 0.00000784 18 -100%
1927 17 0.00000733 17 -100%
1928 29 0.000012827 5 24 -66%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 -100%
1930 26 0.000011694 5 21 -62%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 24 0.000011367 7 17 -42%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 -100%
1934 29 0.000013964 7 22 -52%
1935 19 0.000009091 19 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 -100%
1937 23 0.000010795 9 14 -22%
1938 13 0.000005876 13 -100%
1939 23 0.000010438 5 18 -57%
1940 20 0.000008686 5 15 -50%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 16 0.000005857 5 11 -38%
1943 13 0.000004606 6 7 -8%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 -100%
1945 13 0.0000049 5 8 -23%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 28 0.000007773 5 23 -64%
1948 20 0.000005793 20 -100%
1949 19 0.000005452 5 14 -47%
1950 17 0.000004852 6 11 -29%
1951 25 0.000006787 25 -100%
1952 32 0.000008425 32 -100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 -100%
1954 21 0.000005275 21 -100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 -100%
1956 18 0.000004366 18 -100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 26 0.000006277 5 21 -62%
1962 13 0.000003222 13 -100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 -100%
1967 22 0.00000648 11 11 0%
1968 24 0.000007104 10 14 -17%
1969 24 0.000006906 9 15 -25%
1970 36 0.000009982 12 24 -33%
1971 28 0.000008158 12 16 -14%
1972 31 0.000009863 10 21 -35%
1973 32 0.000010607 12 20 -25%
1974 28 0.000009211 8 20 -43%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 -100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 17 0.000005356 6 11 -29%
1979 15 0.000004509 8 7 7%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1981 13 0.000003758 5 8 -23%
1982 18 0.000005131 7 11 -22%
1983 18 0.000005197 10 8 11%
1984 16 0.000004586 9 7 13%
1985 11 0.000003082 6 5 9%
1986 10 0.000002811 10 -100%
1987 18 0.000004992 9 9 0%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 -100%
1989 22 0.000005723 15 7 36%
1990 17 0.000004301 9 8 6%
1991 19 0.000004878 6 13 -37%
1992 24 0.000006248 11 13 -8%
1993 13 0.000003448 5 8 -23%
1994 18 0.000004842 10 8 11%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 6 7 -8%
1997 15 0.000004137 6 9 -20%
1998 19 0.000005166 12 7 26%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 100%
2000 23 0.000006085 15 8 30%
2001 14 0.00000374 9 5 29%
2002 25 0.000006688 15 10 20%
2003 21 0.000005523 9 12 -14%
2004 15 0.000003926 10 5 33%
2005 26 0.000006762 18 8 38%
2006 34 0.000008594 19 15 12%
2007 36 0.000009005 28 8 56%
2008 57 0.000014501 41 16 44%
2009 97 0.000025392 86 11 77%
2010 80 0.000021647 64 16 60%
2011 103 0.000028159 84 19 63%
2012 116 0.000031717 102 14 76%
2013 196 0.000053762 185 11 89%
2014 222 0.000059897 206 16 86%
2015 239 0.000064579 222 17 86%
2016 275 0.000074958 256 19 86%
2017 280 0.000078296 264 16 89%
2018 276 0.000078501 246 30 78%
2019 264 0.00007606 243 21 84%
2020 300 0.000089805 279 21 86%
2021 318 0.000093862 302 16 90%
2022 398 0.000117642 365 33 83%
2023 367 0.000110836 328 39 79%
2024 523 0.000157128 476 47 82%

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