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How popular is “Marva” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marva” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marva” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marva” 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
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 100%
1919 20 0.000009478 20 100%
1920 24 0.000010607 24 100%
1921 31 0.000013279 31 100%
1922 25 0.000010921 25 100%
1923 35 0.000015201 35 100%
1924 37 0.000015536 37 100%
1925 44 0.000018857 44 100%
1926 39 0.000016987 39 100%
1927 43 0.00001854 43 100%
1928 60 0.000026538 60 100%
1929 56 0.000025546 56 100%
1930 69 0.000031035 69 100%
1931 57 0.000027086 57 100%
1932 57 0.000026998 57 100%
1933 60 0.000030008 60 100%
1934 74 0.000035631 74 100%
1935 187 0.000089478 187 100%
1936 357 0.000171835 350 7 96%
1937 342 0.000160513 342 100%
1938 332 0.000150051 332 100%
1939 318 0.00014432 318 100%
1940 297 0.00012898 297 100%
1941 338 0.000138728 338 100%
1942 276 0.000101032 276 100%
1943 322 0.000114081 322 100%
1944 316 0.000117469 316 100%
1945 263 0.000099136 263 100%
1946 287 0.000089819 287 100%
1947 328 0.000091052 328 100%
1948 371 0.000107458 371 100%
1949 318 0.000091254 318 100%
1950 315 0.000089914 315 100%
1951 330 0.000089583 330 100%
1952 241 0.000063454 241 100%
1953 296 0.00007681 296 100%
1954 282 0.000070842 282 100%
1955 261 0.000065005 261 100%
1956 252 0.00006112 252 100%
1957 214 0.000050926 214 100%
1958 173 0.000041849 173 100%
1959 212 0.000050986 212 100%
1960 172 0.000041408 172 100%
1961 150 0.000036212 150 100%
1962 172 0.000042623 172 100%
1963 144 0.00003638 144 100%
1964 141 0.000036269 141 100%
1965 125 0.000034478 125 100%
1966 111 0.000031936 111 100%
1967 105 0.000030929 105 100%
1968 109 0.000032264 109 100%
1969 115 0.00003309 115 100%
1970 113 0.000031332 113 100%
1971 94 0.000027386 94 100%
1972 69 0.000021954 69 100%
1973 59 0.000019557 59 100%
1974 65 0.000021382 65 100%
1975 46 0.000015235 46 100%
1976 31 0.000010217 31 100%
1977 37 0.000011648 37 100%
1978 24 0.000007562 24 100%
1979 33 0.000009919 33 100%
1980 35 0.000010161 35 100%
1981 30 0.000008672 30 100%
1982 34 0.000009692 34 100%
1983 33 0.000009528 33 100%
1984 33 0.000009459 33 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 100%
1987 26 0.000007211 26 100%
1988 23 0.000006225 23 100%
1989 28 0.000007283 28 100%
1990 22 0.000005566 22 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%

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