How popular is “Melrose” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Melrose” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Melrose” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1902	5	0.000012929	5		100%
1908	5	0.000010232	5		100%
1912	13	0.000013157	13		100%
1913	9	0.000007915	9		100%
1914	10	0.00000706	10		100%
1915	20	0.000010914	14	6	40%
1916	32	0.000016542	26	6	63%
1917	19	0.000009468	19		100%
1918	24	0.000011054	24		100%
1919	27	0.000012795	27		100%
1920	21	0.000009281	21		100%
1921	34	0.000014564	25	9	47%
1922	36	0.000015726	31	5	72%
1923	22	0.000009555	17	5	55%
1924	18	0.000007558	18		100%
1925	20	0.000008572	20		100%
1926	34	0.000014809	34		100%
1927	34	0.000014659	27	7	59%
1928	26	0.0000115	26		100%
1929	26	0.00001186	18	8	38%
1930	16	0.000007197	16		100%
1931	17	0.000008078	17		100%
1932	13	0.000006157	13		100%
1933	14	0.000007002	14		100%
1934	13	0.00000626	13		100%
1935	17	0.000008134	17		100%
1936	18	0.000008664	18		100%
1937	8	0.000003755	8		100%
1938	17	0.000007683	17		100%
1939	15	0.000006808	15		100%
1940	13	0.000005646	13		100%
1941	10	0.000004104	10		100%
1943	8	0.000002834	8		100%
1944	9	0.000003346	9		100%
1946	8	0.000002504	8		100%
1947	16	0.000004442	11	5	38%
1949	5	0.000001435	5		100%
1950	5	0.000001427	5		100%
1951	5	0.000001357	5		100%
1952	9	0.00000237	9		100%
1953	11	0.000002854	11		100%
1955	6	0.000001494	6		100%
1961	5	0.000001207	5		100%
1962	6	0.000001487	6		100%
2006	7	0.000001769	7		100%
2007	12	0.000003002	12		100%
2008	14	0.000003562	14		100%
2009	10	0.000002618	10		100%
2010	16	0.000004329	16		100%
2011	12	0.000003281	12		100%
2012	27	0.000007382	27		100%
2013	23	0.000006309	23		100%
2014	30	0.000008094	30		100%
2015	16	0.000004323	16		100%
2016	28	0.000007632	28		100%
2017	25	0.000006991	25		100%
2018	40	0.000011377	40		100%
2019	24	0.000006915	24		100%
2020	48	0.000014369	48		100%
2021	37	0.000010921	37		100%
2022	36	0.000010641	36		100%
2023	38	0.000011476	38		100%
2024	49	0.000014721	49		100%

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