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How popular is “Marykay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Marykay” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Marykay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Marykay” 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
1940 8 0.000003474 8 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 100%
1955 19 0.000004732 19 100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 100%
1957 23 0.000005473 23 100%
1958 25 0.000006048 25 100%
1959 38 0.000009139 38 100%
1960 44 0.000010593 44 100%
1961 72 0.000017382 72 100%
1962 67 0.000016603 67 100%
1963 63 0.000015916 63 100%
1964 68 0.000017491 68 100%
1965 39 0.000010757 39 100%
1966 25 0.000007193 25 100%
1967 24 0.000007069 24 100%
1968 22 0.000006512 22 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 100%
1971 14 0.000004079 14 100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 15 0.000004943 15 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

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