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How popular is “Mearl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mearl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mearl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mearl” 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 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1900 14 0.000031093 5 9 -29%
1901 13 0.000037593 6 7 -8%
1902 10 0.000025858 5 5 0%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 6 6 0%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 19 0.000040826 11 8 16%
1908 13 0.000026604 6 7 -8%
1909 25 0.000048902 8 17 -36%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 13 0.000020178 8 5 23%
1912 19 0.00001923 8 11 -16%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 31 0.000021887 10 21 -35%
1915 56 0.000030561 22 34 -21%
1916 41 0.000021195 18 23 -12%
1917 41 0.000020431 11 30 -46%
1918 53 0.000024411 16 37 -40%
1919 40 0.000018955 10 30 -50%
1920 50 0.000022098 12 38 -52%
1921 41 0.000017563 5 36 -76%
1922 47 0.000020532 16 31 -32%
1923 44 0.00001911 19 25 -14%
1924 40 0.000016795 16 24 -20%
1925 42 0.000018 14 28 -33%
1926 44 0.000019165 10 34 -55%
1927 49 0.000021127 17 32 -31%
1928 35 0.00001548 12 23 -31%
1929 31 0.000014141 6 25 -61%
1930 40 0.000017991 10 30 -50%
1931 40 0.000019008 17 23 -15%
1932 38 0.000017998 14 24 -26%
1933 39 0.000019505 11 28 -44%
1934 14 0.000006741 14 -100%
1935 32 0.000015312 10 22 -38%
1936 25 0.000012033 9 16 -28%
1937 25 0.000011733 8 17 -36%
1938 28 0.000012655 9 19 -36%
1939 27 0.000012254 5 22 -63%
1940 26 0.000011291 6 20 -54%
1941 28 0.000011492 5 23 -64%
1942 18 0.000006589 18 -100%
1943 26 0.000009211 8 18 -38%
1944 27 0.000010037 9 18 -33%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 17 -100%
1947 18 0.000004997 18 -100%
1948 35 0.000010138 9 26 -49%
1949 19 0.000005452 6 13 -37%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 -100%
1952 17 0.000004476 17 -100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 -100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 5 10 -33%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%

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