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How popular is “Martel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Martel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Martel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Martel” 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
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1928 6 0.000002654 6 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 -100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 5 8 -23%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 -100%
1977 11 0.000003463 11 -100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 -100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 -100%
1980 22 0.000006387 22 -100%
1981 31 0.000008961 5 26 -68%
1982 39 0.000011118 39 -100%
1983 62 0.000017902 62 -100%
1984 44 0.000012612 44 -100%
1985 65 0.000018212 65 -100%
1986 52 0.000014619 52 -100%
1987 56 0.000015531 56 -100%
1988 59 0.000015967 59 -100%
1989 71 0.000018468 71 -100%
1990 66 0.000016698 66 -100%
1991 72 0.000018484 72 -100%
1992 62 0.00001614 62 -100%
1993 63 0.00001671 63 -100%
1994 45 0.000012104 45 -100%
1995 54 0.000014745 54 -100%
1996 37 0.000010145 37 -100%
1997 36 0.000009929 36 -100%
1998 28 0.000007612 28 -100%
1999 33 0.000008934 33 -100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 -100%
2001 27 0.000007213 27 -100%
2002 29 0.000007758 29 -100%
2003 19 0.000004997 19 -100%
2004 26 0.000006805 26 -100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 -100%
2006 26 0.000006572 26 -100%
2007 21 0.000005253 21 -100%
2008 24 0.000006106 24 -100%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 -100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 -100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 18 0.000004856 18 -100%
2015 18 0.000004864 18 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 23 0.000006431 23 -100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 -100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 -100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 -100%

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