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How popular is “Gael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gael” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gael” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 9 5 29%
1937 18 0.000008448 18 100%
1938 15 0.000006779 9 6 20%
1939 22 0.000009984 15 7 36%
1940 10 0.000004343 10 100%
1941 18 0.000007388 18 100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 100%
1945 25 0.000009424 25 100%
1946 22 0.000006885 15 7 36%
1947 44 0.000012214 28 16 27%
1948 25 0.000007241 18 7 44%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 100%
1950 15 0.000004282 15 100%
1951 14 0.0000038 14 100%
1952 26 0.000006846 18 8 38%
1953 24 0.000006228 24 100%
1954 17 0.000004271 17 100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 100%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1992 22 0.000005727 5 17 -55%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 -100%
1994 9 0.000002421 9 -100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 -100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 -100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 47 0.000012555 47 -100%
2002 246 0.000065805 246 -100%
2003 450 0.000118349 7 443 -97%
2004 758 0.000198381 7 751 -98%
2005 1113 0.000289479 11 1102 -98%
2006 1040 0.000262879 14 1026 -97%
2007 1173 0.00029342 6 1167 -99%
2008 1126 0.000286466 7 1119 -99%
2009 1002 0.000262292 1002 -100%
2010 692 0.000187243 692 -100%
2011 695 0.000190005 5 690 -99%
2012 2754 0.000753001 9 2745 -99%
2013 2321 0.000636646 14 2307 -99%
2014 1815 0.000489697 6 1809 -99%
2015 1790 0.000483665 7 1783 -99%
2016 2256 0.000614932 8 2248 -99%
2017 2245 0.000627762 6 2239 -99%
2018 2938 0.000835633 7 2931 -100%
2019 2908 0.000837815 8 2900 -99%
2020 3271 0.000979172 9 3262 -99%
2021 3522 0.001039567 9 3513 -99%
2022 3522 0.001041046 13 3509 -99%
2023 3639 0.001098999 11 3628 -99%
2024 3862 0.001160282 7 3855 -100%

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