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How popular is “Marlys” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marlys” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marlys” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marlys” 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
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 100%
1915 24 0.000013097 24 100%
1916 16 0.000008271 16 100%
1917 27 0.000013455 27 100%
1918 27 0.000012436 27 100%
1919 43 0.000020377 43 100%
1920 48 0.000021214 48 100%
1921 66 0.000028272 66 100%
1922 52 0.000022716 52 100%
1923 81 0.000035179 81 100%
1924 84 0.00003527 84 100%
1925 113 0.000048429 113 100%
1926 123 0.000053574 123 100%
1927 158 0.000068122 158 100%
1928 160 0.000070767 160 100%
1929 170 0.000077549 170 100%
1930 211 0.000094904 211 100%
1931 277 0.00013163 277 100%
1932 240 0.000113675 240 100%
1933 312 0.000156043 312 100%
1934 343 0.000165157 343 100%
1935 350 0.000167472 350 100%
1936 367 0.000176648 367 100%
1937 369 0.000173185 369 100%
1938 365 0.000164966 360 5 97%
1939 343 0.000155666 343 100%
1940 295 0.000128111 295 100%
1941 282 0.000115743 282 100%
1942 264 0.000096639 264 100%
1943 285 0.000100972 285 100%
1944 227 0.000084384 227 100%
1945 234 0.000088205 234 100%
1946 243 0.000076049 243 100%
1947 227 0.000063015 227 100%
1948 194 0.000056191 194 100%
1949 179 0.000051366 179 100%
1950 181 0.000051665 181 100%
1951 190 0.000051578 190 100%
1952 160 0.000042127 160 100%
1953 178 0.00004619 178 100%
1954 150 0.000037682 150 100%
1955 113 0.000028144 113 100%
1956 121 0.000029347 121 100%
1957 107 0.000025463 107 100%
1958 98 0.000023706 98 100%
1959 93 0.000022367 93 100%
1960 79 0.000019019 79 100%
1961 75 0.000018106 75 100%
1962 67 0.000016603 67 100%
1963 52 0.000013137 52 100%
1964 62 0.000015948 62 100%
1965 25 0.000006896 25 100%
1966 30 0.000008631 30 100%
1967 29 0.000008542 29 100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 100%
1969 23 0.000006618 23 100%
1970 23 0.000006377 23 100%
1971 15 0.00000437 15 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2016 11 0.000002998 11 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%

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