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How popular is “Meggan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meggan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meggan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meggan” 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
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1970 27 0.000007486 27 100%
1971 32 0.000009323 32 100%
1972 35 0.000011136 35 100%
1973 40 0.000013259 40 100%
1974 61 0.000020066 61 100%
1975 123 0.000040737 123 100%
1976 95 0.000031309 95 100%
1977 136 0.000042814 136 100%
1978 100 0.000031507 100 100%
1979 124 0.000037271 124 100%
1980 128 0.000037161 128 100%
1981 123 0.000035556 123 100%
1982 109 0.000031072 109 100%
1983 149 0.000043022 149 100%
1984 156 0.000044715 156 100%
1985 185 0.000051834 185 100%
1986 151 0.000042451 151 100%
1987 123 0.000034113 123 100%
1988 104 0.000028146 104 100%
1989 84 0.00002185 84 100%
1990 115 0.000029096 115 100%
1991 80 0.000020538 80 100%
1992 85 0.000022128 85 100%
1993 56 0.000014853 56 100%
1994 67 0.000018022 67 100%
1995 43 0.000011742 43 100%
1996 37 0.000010145 37 100%
1997 41 0.000011308 41 100%
1998 43 0.00001169 43 100%
1999 44 0.000011912 44 100%
2000 46 0.00001217 46 100%
2001 18 0.000004808 18 100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2005 17 0.000004422 17 100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 100%
2009 10 0.000002618 10 100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%

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