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How popular is “Mars” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mars” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mars” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mars” 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
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
2006 13 0.000003286 13 -100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 -100%
2008 7 0.000001781 7 -100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2010 14 0.000003788 14 -100%
2011 25 0.000006835 25 -100%
2012 27 0.000007382 27 -100%
2013 21 0.00000576 21 -100%
2014 34 0.000009173 34 -100%
2015 27 0.000007295 27 -100%
2016 62 0.0000169 6 56 -81%
2017 81 0.00002265 7 74 -83%
2018 92 0.000026167 15 77 -67%
2019 110 0.000031692 20 90 -64%
2020 117 0.000035024 19 98 -68%
2021 174 0.000051359 30 144 -66%
2022 128 0.000037835 15 113 -77%
2023 190 0.000057381 36 154 -62%
2024 151 0.000045366 27 124 -64%

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