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How popular is “Meara” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meara” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meara” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meara” 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
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 100%
1993 13 0.000003448 13 100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 23 0.000006227 23 100%
2000 35 0.000009259 35 100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 100%
2002 33 0.000008828 33 100%
2003 31 0.000008153 31 100%
2004 41 0.00001073 41 100%
2005 50 0.000013004 50 100%
2006 45 0.000011375 45 100%
2007 47 0.000011757 47 100%
2008 39 0.000009922 39 100%
2009 29 0.000007591 29 100%
2010 27 0.000007306 27 100%
2011 35 0.000009569 35 100%
2012 53 0.000014491 53 100%
2013 62 0.000017006 62 100%
2014 66 0.000017807 66 100%
2015 72 0.000019455 72 100%
2016 52 0.000014174 52 100%
2017 59 0.000016498 59 100%
2018 64 0.000018203 64 100%
2019 50 0.000014405 50 100%
2020 36 0.000010777 36 100%
2021 34 0.000010036 34 100%
2022 39 0.000011528 39 100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 100%
2024 34 0.000010215 34 100%

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