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How popular is “Mecca” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mecca” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mecca” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mecca” 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
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 100%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1970 21 0.000005823 21 100%
1971 30 0.00000874 30 100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 100%
1973 30 0.000009944 30 100%
1974 24 0.000007895 24 100%
1975 49 0.000016228 43 6 76%
1976 38 0.000012523 38 100%
1977 42 0.000013222 42 100%
1978 28 0.000008822 28 100%
1979 36 0.000010821 36 100%
1980 50 0.000014516 50 100%
1981 36 0.000010407 36 100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 100%
1983 32 0.00000924 32 100%
1984 31 0.000008886 31 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 100%
1987 25 0.000006934 25 100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 100%
1989 24 0.000006243 24 100%
1990 36 0.000009108 36 100%
1991 34 0.000008729 34 100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 100%
1993 59 0.000015649 59 100%
1994 79 0.00002125 79 100%
1995 96 0.000026214 89 7 85%
1996 91 0.000024951 79 12 74%
1997 76 0.000020961 66 10 74%
1998 88 0.000023925 80 8 82%
1999 87 0.000023553 77 10 77%
2000 70 0.000018519 63 7 80%
2001 48 0.000012823 48 100%
2002 61 0.000016318 49 12 61%
2003 41 0.000010783 36 5 76%
2004 52 0.000013609 42 10 62%
2005 47 0.000012224 41 6 74%
2006 48 0.000012133 48 100%
2007 34 0.000008505 29 5 71%
2008 40 0.000010176 34 6 70%
2009 23 0.000006021 23 100%
2010 20 0.000005412 15 5 50%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2012 29 0.000007929 17 12 17%
2013 29 0.000007955 18 11 24%
2014 39 0.000010522 27 12 38%
2015 53 0.000014321 21 32 -21%
2016 67 0.000018263 33 34 -1%
2017 84 0.000023489 37 47 -12%
2018 76 0.000021616 38 38 0%
2019 97 0.000027946 46 51 -5%
2020 117 0.000035024 62 55 6%
2021 108 0.000031878 40 68 -26%
2022 141 0.000041677 48 93 -32%
2023 164 0.000049529 56 108 -32%
2024 136 0.000040859 47 89 -31%

Explore other names

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  9. Mecha
  10. Mechaela
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