girls:
66 births since 1948
#5650 (1st percentile)
boys:
219 births since 1949
#4367 (5th percentile)
overall:
285 births since 1948
#7454 (4th percentile)
The name Mardy is the #7,454 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 285 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,367 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 219 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #5,650 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 1948.
Mardy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (1948 for girls and 1949 for boys). Birth data for Mardy is available in 32 out of the 43 years between 1948 and 1990 (28 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mardy has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.8% of all recorded births being male. In 1990, 100.0% of babies named Mardy were boys. Interestingly, until around 1955, the name was more popular for girls (61.8% girls from 1948 to 1954), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (82.1% boys from 1955 to 1990).
For boys, Mardy reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #648) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
For girls, Mardy reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #667) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mardy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mardy is pronounced as MAHR-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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