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How popular is “Marvin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marvin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marvin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marvin” 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
1880 69 0.000342459 69 -100%
1881 57 0.000295815 57 -100%
1882 64 0.000288896 64 -100%
1883 71 0.00032727 71 -100%
1884 73 0.000299843 73 -100%
1885 65 0.000269873 65 -100%
1886 90 0.000352504 90 -100%
1887 70 0.000282952 70 -100%
1888 90 0.000300527 90 -100%
1889 77 0.000266486 77 -100%
1890 99 0.000328466 99 -100%
1891 93 0.000324411 93 -100%
1892 88 0.000263178 88 -100%
1893 102 0.000313631 102 -100%
1894 92 0.000271635 92 -100%
1895 107 0.000304826 107 -100%
1896 93 0.000260152 93 -100%
1897 134 0.000386215 134 -100%
1898 127 0.000332936 127 -100%
1899 138 0.000406799 138 -100%
1900 176 0.000390887 176 -100%
1901 145 0.000419303 145 -100%
1902 192 0.000496467 6 186 -94%
1903 185 0.00048531 185 -100%
1904 203 0.000503117 203 -100%
1905 220 0.000518963 5 215 -95%
1906 245 0.000571827 245 -100%
1907 304 0.000653216 304 -100%
1908 318 0.000650774 7 311 -96%
1909 361 0.000706148 7 354 -96%
1910 421 0.0007127 8 413 -96%
1911 496 0.000769854 8 488 -97%
1912 963 0.000974635 5 958 -99%
1913 1246 0.00109576 10 1236 -98%
1914 1637 0.001155793 10 1627 -99%
1915 2242 0.001223515 15 2227 -99%
1916 2541 0.001313574 12 2529 -99%
1917 2533 0.00126224 16 2517 -99%
1918 2851 0.001313153 22 2829 -98%
1919 3011 0.001426849 14 2997 -99%
1920 3268 0.001444329 24 3244 -99%
1921 3513 0.001504816 23 3490 -99%
1922 3604 0.001574379 24 3580 -99%
1923 3836 0.001666029 26 3810 -99%
1924 4064 0.001706409 40 4024 -98%
1925 4118 0.001764881 26 4092 -99%
1926 4144 0.001804953 33 4111 -98%
1927 4434 0.001911736 37 4397 -98%
1928 4484 0.001983248 32 4452 -99%
1929 4433 0.002022205 44 4389 -98%
1930 4438 0.001996143 35 4403 -98%
1931 4390 0.002086117 30 4360 -99%
1932 4221 0.001999251 33 4188 -98%
1933 4160 0.002080575 29 4131 -99%
1934 4237 0.002040142 20 4217 -99%
1935 4301 0.002057993 23 4278 -99%
1936 3954 0.001903178 18 3936 -99%
1937 3928 0.001843552 16 3912 -99%
1938 3914 0.00176898 14 3900 -99%
1939 3779 0.001715044 21 3758 -99%
1940 3523 0.001529953 21 3502 -99%
1941 3645 0.001496044 19 3626 -99%
1942 3810 0.001394676 18 3792 -99%
1943 3960 0.001402982 21 3939 -99%
1944 3593 0.001335648 25 3568 -99%
1945 3311 0.001248063 17 3294 -99%
1946 3618 0.001132286 18 3600 -99%
1947 3792 0.001052654 19 3773 -99%
1948 3646 0.001056041 21 3625 -99%
1949 3744 0.001074388 19 3725 -99%
1950 3508 0.001001325 15 3493 -99%
1951 3572 0.000969667 15 3557 -99%
1952 3588 0.000944706 13 3575 -99%
1953 3587 0.000930807 23 3564 -99%
1954 3513 0.000882506 15 3498 -99%
1955 3676 0.000915548 16 3660 -99%
1956 3502 0.000849374 20 3482 -99%
1957 3423 0.000814584 15 3408 -99%
1958 3322 0.000803599 21 3301 -99%
1959 3178 0.000764311 10 3168 -99%
1960 3293 0.000792765 17 3276 -99%
1961 3206 0.000773966 21 3185 -99%
1962 3148 0.000780102 18 3130 -99%
1963 3000 0.00075792 25 2975 -98%
1964 3007 0.000773484 30 2977 -98%
1965 2990 0.000824725 21 2969 -99%
1966 2753 0.000792081 18 2735 -99%
1967 2452 0.000722261 25 2427 -98%
1968 2283 0.000675761 28 2255 -98%
1969 2215 0.000637351 17 2198 -98%
1970 2045 0.00056703 9 2036 -99%
1971 1958 0.000570454 27 1931 -97%
1972 1616 0.000514159 22 1594 -97%
1973 1526 0.000505819 20 1506 -97%
1974 1506 0.000495395 20 1486 -97%
1975 1324 0.000438499 15 1309 -98%
1976 1270 0.000418548 17 1253 -97%
1977 1191 0.000374942 19 1172 -97%
1978 1215 0.000382813 15 1200 -98%
1979 1259 0.000378419 14 1245 -98%
1980 1235 0.000358542 11 1224 -98%
1981 1187 0.000343126 16 1171 -97%
1982 1144 0.000326115 9 1135 -98%
1983 1183 0.000341578 11 1172 -98%
1984 1112 0.000318738 12 1100 -98%
1985 1158 0.000324451 15 1143 -97%
1986 1146 0.000322175 9 1137 -98%
1987 1097 0.000304248 18 1079 -97%
1988 1167 0.000315829 15 1152 -97%
1989 1196 0.000311098 5 1191 -99%
1990 1223 0.000309426 7 1216 -99%
1991 1198 0.000307553 5 1193 -99%
1992 1180 0.00030719 5 1175 -99%
1993 1090 0.000289103 9 1081 -98%
1994 984 0.000264683 6 978 -99%
1995 843 0.000230192 843 -100%
1996 871 0.000238814 871 -100%
1997 858 0.000236641 858 -100%
1998 840 0.000228372 840 -100%
1999 765 0.0002071 765 -100%
2000 815 0.000215614 815 -100%
2001 809 0.000216114 809 -100%
2002 802 0.000214537 802 -100%
2003 870 0.000228808 870 -100%
2004 807 0.000211206 5 802 -99%
2005 809 0.000210412 809 -100%
2006 896 0.000226481 896 -100%
2007 887 0.000221879 887 -100%
2008 827 0.000210397 827 -100%
2009 710 0.000185855 710 -100%
2010 636 0.00017209 636 -100%
2011 577 0.000157745 577 -100%
2012 581 0.000158857 581 -100%
2013 550 0.000150864 550 -100%
2014 571 0.000154059 571 -100%
2015 522 0.000141046 522 -100%
2016 533 0.000145283 533 -100%
2017 487 0.000136178 487 -100%
2018 480 0.000136523 480 -100%
2019 482 0.000138868 5 477 -98%
2020 451 0.000135007 451 -100%
2021 450 0.000132824 450 -100%
2022 457 0.000135082 457 -100%
2023 432 0.000130466 432 -100%
2024 406 0.000121977 406 -100%

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