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How popular is “Melva” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melva” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melva” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melva” 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
1880 6 0.000029779 6 100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 100%
1889 10 0.000034609 10 100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 100%
1895 16 0.000045581 16 100%
1896 17 0.000047555 17 100%
1897 16 0.000046115 16 100%
1898 17 0.000044566 17 100%
1899 21 0.000061904 21 100%
1900 23 0.000051082 23 100%
1901 25 0.000072294 25 100%
1902 29 0.000074987 29 100%
1903 36 0.000094439 36 100%
1904 39 0.000096658 39 100%
1905 45 0.000106152 45 100%
1906 37 0.000086358 37 100%
1907 51 0.000109586 51 100%
1908 54 0.000110509 54 100%
1909 45 0.000088024 45 100%
1910 71 0.000120194 71 100%
1911 57 0.000088471 57 100%
1912 106 0.000107281 106 100%
1913 117 0.000102892 117 100%
1914 135 0.000095316 135 100%
1915 207 0.000112965 207 100%
1916 225 0.000116314 225 100%
1917 220 0.00010963 220 100%
1918 206 0.000094882 206 100%
1919 241 0.000114205 241 100%
1920 279 0.000123307 279 100%
1921 284 0.000121653 284 100%
1922 239 0.000104405 239 100%
1923 291 0.000126385 291 100%
1924 288 0.000120927 288 100%
1925 276 0.000118287 276 100%
1926 271 0.000118036 263 8 94%
1927 285 0.000122879 285 100%
1928 276 0.000122073 276 100%
1929 300 0.000136851 300 100%
1930 258 0.000116044 258 100%
1931 277 0.00013163 277 100%
1932 296 0.000140199 296 100%
1933 244 0.000122034 244 100%
1934 246 0.000118451 246 100%
1935 276 0.000132064 276 100%
1936 274 0.000131884 274 100%
1937 300 0.000140801 300 100%
1938 313 0.000141464 308 5 97%
1939 285 0.000129343 280 5 96%
1940 296 0.000128546 290 6 96%
1941 268 0.000109997 262 6 96%
1942 264 0.000096639 264 100%
1943 283 0.000100264 283 100%
1944 220 0.000081782 220 100%
1945 233 0.000087828 233 100%
1946 224 0.000070103 224 100%
1947 247 0.000068567 247 100%
1948 210 0.000060825 210 100%
1949 235 0.000067436 235 100%
1950 218 0.000062226 218 100%
1951 253 0.00006868 253 100%
1952 224 0.000058978 224 100%
1953 208 0.000053975 208 100%
1954 207 0.000052001 207 100%
1955 192 0.00004782 192 100%
1956 202 0.000048993 202 100%
1957 185 0.000044025 185 100%
1958 164 0.000039672 164 100%
1959 124 0.000029822 124 100%
1960 149 0.000035871 149 100%
1961 123 0.000029694 123 100%
1962 123 0.00003048 123 100%
1963 101 0.000025517 101 100%
1964 107 0.000027523 107 100%
1965 110 0.000030341 110 100%
1966 96 0.000027621 96 100%
1967 79 0.00002327 79 100%
1968 68 0.000020128 68 100%
1969 85 0.000024458 85 100%
1970 57 0.000015805 57 100%
1971 88 0.000025638 88 100%
1972 60 0.00001909 60 100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 100%
1974 60 0.000019737 60 100%
1975 48 0.000015897 48 100%
1976 40 0.000013183 40 100%
1977 50 0.000015741 50 100%
1978 41 0.000012918 41 100%
1979 54 0.000016231 54 100%
1980 53 0.000015387 53 100%
1981 34 0.000009828 34 100%
1982 23 0.000006557 23 100%
1983 30 0.000008662 30 100%
1984 22 0.000006306 22 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 100%
1986 17 0.000004779 17 100%
1987 14 0.000003883 14 100%
1988 21 0.000005683 21 100%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 100%
1990 29 0.000007337 29 100%
1991 21 0.000005391 21 100%
1992 8 0.000002083 8 100%
1993 16 0.000004244 16 100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 100%

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