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How popular is “Melville” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melville” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melville” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melville” 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 17 0.000084374 17 -100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 10 0.000041519 10 -100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 -100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 -100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 -100%
1889 15 0.000051913 15 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 14 0.000041869 14 -100%
1893 10 0.000030748 10 -100%
1894 19 0.000056098 19 -100%
1895 19 0.000054128 19 -100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 -100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 15 0.000038786 15 -100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 12 -100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 -100%
1906 13 0.000030342 13 -100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 -100%
1908 9 0.000018418 9 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 -100%
1912 44 0.000044532 44 -100%
1913 37 0.000032539 37 -100%
1914 56 0.000039538 56 -100%
1915 67 0.000036564 67 -100%
1916 64 0.000033085 64 -100%
1917 60 0.000029899 60 -100%
1918 77 0.000035466 77 -100%
1919 56 0.000026537 56 -100%
1920 67 0.000029611 7 60 -79%
1921 63 0.000026986 7 56 -78%
1922 71 0.000031016 71 -100%
1923 58 0.00002519 58 -100%
1924 66 0.000027712 66 -100%
1925 42 0.000018 42 -100%
1926 45 0.0000196 45 -100%
1927 53 0.000022851 53 -100%
1928 34 0.000015038 34 -100%
1929 41 0.000018703 41 -100%
1930 49 0.000022039 49 -100%
1931 32 0.000015206 32 -100%
1932 31 0.000014683 31 -100%
1933 40 0.000020006 40 -100%
1934 29 0.000013964 29 -100%
1935 34 0.000016269 34 -100%
1936 24 0.000011552 24 -100%
1937 31 0.000014549 31 -100%
1938 43 0.000019434 43 -100%
1939 24 0.000010892 24 -100%
1940 30 0.000013028 30 -100%
1941 25 0.000010261 25 -100%
1942 27 0.000009884 27 -100%
1943 20 0.000007086 20 -100%
1944 32 0.000011896 32 -100%
1945 27 0.000010178 27 -100%
1946 20 0.000006259 20 -100%
1947 19 0.000005274 19 -100%
1948 27 0.00000782 27 -100%
1949 28 0.000008035 28 -100%
1950 23 0.000006565 23 -100%
1951 22 0.000005972 22 -100%
1952 27 0.000007109 27 -100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 -100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 -100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 -100%
1956 13 0.000003153 13 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 -100%
1960 12 0.000002889 12 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 -100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 -100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 -100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%

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