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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Mega” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mega” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mega” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mega” 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
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 15 0.000004203 15 100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 100%
1987 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2016 18 0.000004906 18 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 13 0.000003892 13 -100%
2021 16 0.000004723 16 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 19 0.000005738 19 -100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

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