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How popular is “Mayo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mayo” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mayo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mayo” 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
1893 8 0.000024599 8 -100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 6 5 9%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 12 0.000028307 6 6 0%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 5 6 -9%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 19 0.00001923 5 14 -47%
1913 26 0.000022865 9 17 -31%
1914 37 0.000026124 11 26 -41%
1915 53 0.000028923 12 41 -55%
1916 44 0.000022746 15 29 -32%
1917 43 0.000021428 10 33 -53%
1918 37 0.000017042 10 27 -46%
1919 39 0.000018481 14 25 -28%
1920 46 0.00002033 10 36 -57%
1921 54 0.000023131 16 38 -41%
1922 52 0.000022716 15 37 -42%
1923 46 0.000019978 13 33 -43%
1924 41 0.000017215 12 29 -41%
1925 45 0.000019286 13 32 -42%
1926 18 0.00000784 18 -100%
1927 33 0.000014228 7 26 -58%
1928 36 0.000015923 6 30 -67%
1929 23 0.000010492 23 -100%
1930 31 0.000013943 31 -100%
1931 23 0.00001093 23 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 25 0.000012503 6 19 -52%
1934 23 0.000011075 5 18 -57%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 -100%
1937 25 0.000011733 6 19 -52%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 -100%
1939 20 0.000009077 20 -100%
1940 16 0.000006948 16 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 22 0.000008053 22 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 -100%
1947 20 0.000005552 6 14 -40%
1948 14 0.000004055 5 9 -29%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 18 0.000004886 6 12 -33%
1952 15 0.000003949 6 9 -20%
1953 17 0.000004411 5 12 -41%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 19 0.000004522 19 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 -100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 6 6 0%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%

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