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How popular is “Melvin” in the USA?

Number of people named “Melvin” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Melvin” by birth year

This chart shows how “Melvin” 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 103 0.000511207 103 -100%
1881 76 0.00039442 76 -100%
1882 86 0.000388204 86 -100%
1883 96 0.000442506 96 -100%
1884 95 0.000390206 95 -100%
1885 110 0.000456708 110 -100%
1886 83 0.000325087 83 -100%
1887 95 0.000384006 95 -100%
1888 119 0.000397363 119 -100%
1889 97 0.000335703 97 -100%
1890 98 0.000325148 98 -100%
1891 108 0.000376736 108 -100%
1892 114 0.000340936 114 -100%
1893 111 0.000341304 111 -100%
1894 125 0.000369069 125 -100%
1895 163 0.000464361 5 158 -94%
1896 158 0.000441978 158 -100%
1897 133 0.000383333 5 128 -92%
1898 159 0.000416825 159 -100%
1899 166 0.000489338 166 -100%
1900 231 0.000513039 231 -100%
1901 176 0.000508947 176 -100%
1902 254 0.000656784 6 248 -95%
1903 230 0.000603358 230 -100%
1904 234 0.000579947 234 -100%
1905 296 0.000698242 5 291 -97%
1906 285 0.000665187 285 -100%
1907 338 0.000726273 7 331 -96%
1908 372 0.000761283 6 366 -97%
1909 457 0.000893933 9 448 -96%
1910 495 0.000837973 13 482 -95%
1911 605 0.000939036 11 594 -96%
1912 1201 0.001215511 16 1185 -97%
1913 1656 0.001456323 14 1642 -98%
1914 2091 0.001476336 27 2064 -97%
1915 2798 0.001526937 18 2780 -99%
1916 3007 0.001554474 23 2984 -98%
1917 3179 0.001584154 24 3155 -98%
1918 3499 0.001611617 30 3469 -98%
1919 3412 0.001616874 28 3384 -98%
1920 3753 0.00165868 36 3717 -98%
1921 3927 0.001682155 40 3887 -98%
1922 3951 0.001725964 43 3908 -98%
1923 4056 0.001761578 44 4012 -98%
1924 4221 0.00177233 53 4168 -97%
1925 4179 0.001791024 33 4146 -98%
1926 4228 0.00184154 34 4194 -98%
1927 4245 0.001830248 43 4202 -98%
1928 4311 0.001906731 62 4249 -97%
1929 4140 0.001888547 40 4100 -98%
1930 4094 0.001841417 46 4048 -98%
1931 3736 0.001775338 36 3700 -98%
1932 3810 0.001804583 34 3776 -98%
1933 3623 0.001812001 35 3588 -98%
1934 3733 0.001797463 31 3702 -98%
1935 3622 0.001733097 22 3600 -99%
1936 3770 0.001814613 40 3730 -98%
1937 3915 0.00183745 25 3890 -99%
1938 3842 0.001736439 24 3818 -99%
1939 3884 0.001762697 31 3853 -98%
1940 3971 0.001724509 36 3935 -98%
1941 3980 0.001633541 29 3951 -99%
1942 4216 0.001543295 27 4189 -99%
1943 4101 0.001452937 33 4068 -98%
1944 3778 0.00140442 33 3745 -98%
1945 3433 0.001294051 25 3408 -99%
1946 3774 0.001181107 31 3743 -98%
1947 4202 0.00116647 34 4168 -98%
1948 4082 0.001182326 25 4057 -99%
1949 4007 0.001149859 35 3972 -98%
1950 3923 0.001119783 37 3886 -98%
1951 3860 0.001047848 23 3837 -99%
1952 3956 0.001041599 36 3920 -98%
1953 3843 0.000997238 30 3813 -98%
1954 3745 0.000940787 36 3709 -98%
1955 3679 0.000916296 33 3646 -98%
1956 3663 0.000888423 25 3638 -99%
1957 3426 0.000815298 28 3398 -98%
1958 3171 0.000767071 23 3148 -99%
1959 3189 0.000766957 19 3170 -99%
1960 3037 0.000731135 29 3008 -98%
1961 2870 0.000692852 26 2844 -98%
1962 2611 0.000647028 35 2576 -97%
1963 2572 0.00064979 27 2545 -98%
1964 2457 0.000632009 26 2431 -98%
1965 2253 0.00062144 23 2230 -98%
1966 2065 0.000594133 21 2044 -98%
1967 1864 0.000549059 20 1844 -98%
1968 1813 0.000536643 15 1798 -98%
1969 1790 0.00051506 20 1770 -98%
1970 1707 0.00047331 28 1679 -97%
1971 1601 0.000466444 23 1578 -97%
1972 1468 0.000467071 12 1456 -98%
1973 1391 0.000461071 11 1380 -98%
1974 1222 0.000401974 25 1197 -96%
1975 1222 0.000404717 14 1208 -98%
1976 1185 0.000390535 20 1165 -97%
1977 1159 0.000364868 15 1144 -97%
1978 1175 0.000370211 13 1162 -98%
1979 1175 0.000353171 17 1158 -97%
1980 1121 0.000325446 18 1103 -97%
1981 1059 0.000306125 7 1052 -99%
1982 1049 0.000299034 14 1035 -97%
1983 955 0.000275745 7 948 -99%
1984 920 0.000263704 11 909 -98%
1985 918 0.000257207 11 907 -98%
1986 874 0.000245707 12 862 -97%
1987 833 0.000231029 9 824 -98%
1988 904 0.000244652 12 892 -97%
1989 908 0.000236185 8 900 -98%
1990 948 0.00023985 8 940 -98%
1991 858 0.000220267 5 853 -99%
1992 784 0.000204099 784 -100%
1993 729 0.000193354 729 -100%
1994 699 0.000188022 699 -100%
1995 657 0.000179403 657 -100%
1996 597 0.000163687 597 -100%
1997 590 0.000162725 590 -100%
1998 577 0.00015687 577 -100%
1999 555 0.000150249 555 -100%
2000 525 0.000138892 525 -100%
2001 534 0.000142651 534 -100%
2002 908 0.000242892 908 -100%
2003 656 0.000172526 656 -100%
2004 611 0.000159909 611 -100%
2005 627 0.000163075 627 -100%
2006 671 0.000169608 671 -100%
2007 632 0.000158092 632 -100%
2008 592 0.000150611 592 -100%
2009 534 0.000139784 534 -100%
2010 456 0.000123385 456 -100%
2011 390 0.000106622 390 -100%
2012 393 0.000107454 393 -100%
2013 402 0.000110268 402 -100%
2014 386 0.000104145 386 -100%
2015 364 0.000098354 364 -100%
2016 336 0.000091586 336 -100%
2017 328 0.000091718 328 -100%
2018 333 0.000094713 333 -100%
2019 314 0.000090466 314 -100%
2020 323 0.00009669 323 -100%
2021 305 0.000090025 305 -100%
2022 300 0.000088675 300 -100%
2023 298 0.000089998 298 -100%
2024 275 0.00008262 275 -100%

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