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How popular is “Gail” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gail” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gail” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gail” 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
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1882 15 0.00006771 8 7 7%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 100%
1884 8 0.000032859 8 100%
1885 17 0.000070582 17 100%
1886 18 0.000070501 12 6 33%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 100%
1888 22 0.000073462 15 7 36%
1889 25 0.000086521 19 6 52%
1890 20 0.000066357 20 100%
1891 36 0.000125579 29 7 61%
1892 32 0.000095701 21 11 31%
1893 44 0.000135292 31 13 41%
1894 32 0.000094482 22 10 38%
1895 45 0.000128198 32 13 42%
1896 45 0.00012588 36 9 60%
1897 38 0.000109524 32 6 68%
1898 43 0.000112726 32 11 49%
1899 40 0.000117913 32 8 60%
1900 37 0.000082175 28 9 51%
1901 37 0.000106995 25 12 35%
1902 37 0.000095673 26 11 41%
1903 48 0.000125918 31 17 29%
1904 48 0.000118964 36 12 50%
1905 22 0.000051896 14 8 27%
1906 46 0.000107363 34 12 48%
1907 54 0.000116032 35 19 30%
1908 43 0.000087998 30 13 40%
1909 42 0.000082156 32 10 52%
1910 58 0.000098187 33 25 14%
1911 55 0.000085367 32 23 16%
1912 93 0.000094124 53 40 14%
1913 119 0.000104651 58 61 -3%
1914 190 0.000134148 102 88 7%
1915 278 0.000151711 135 143 -3%
1916 347 0.000179382 196 151 13%
1917 375 0.000186869 217 158 16%
1918 376 0.000173183 206 170 10%
1919 360 0.000170596 184 176 2%
1920 352 0.00015557 181 171 3%
1921 381 0.000163204 204 177 7%
1922 317 0.000138479 142 175 -10%
1923 362 0.000157222 154 208 -15%
1924 337 0.000141501 165 172 -2%
1925 342 0.000146573 163 179 -5%
1926 395 0.000172045 206 189 4%
1927 308 0.000132795 186 122 21%
1928 349 0.000154361 173 176 -1%
1929 319 0.000145519 172 147 8%
1930 349 0.000156975 198 151 13%
1931 374 0.000177724 239 135 28%
1932 510 0.000241558 354 156 39%
1933 712 0.000356098 541 171 52%
1934 1388 0.000668331 1176 212 69%
1935 1994 0.000954113 1800 194 81%
1936 2562 0.001233167 2342 220 83%
1937 2853 0.001339015 2635 218 85%
1938 3407 0.001539835 3214 193 89%
1939 3572 0.0016211 3355 217 88%
1940 3811 0.001655024 3621 190 90%
1941 3808 0.001562946 3609 199 90%
1942 4672 0.001710216 4445 227 90%
1943 5023 0.001779591 4810 213 92%
1944 4720 0.001754595 4525 195 92%
1945 4999 0.001884346 4832 167 93%
1946 6436 0.002014204 6227 209 94%
1947 7447 0.002067278 7242 205 94%
1948 6805 0.001971025 6603 202 94%
1949 7435 0.002133566 7225 210 94%
1950 8523 0.002432809 8350 173 96%
1951 10066 0.00273255 9886 180 96%
1952 9927 0.002613741 9760 167 97%
1953 9741 0.002527737 9586 155 97%
1954 9833 0.002470164 9725 108 98%
1955 9087 0.002263218 8972 115 97%
1956 8547 0.002072986 8435 112 97%
1957 8055 0.001916879 7952 103 97%
1958 6697 0.001620018 6608 89 97%
1959 6449 0.001550989 6345 104 97%
1960 5482 0.001319751 5424 58 98%
1961 5047 0.001218405 4972 75 97%
1962 4447 0.001102005 4382 65 97%
1963 4155 0.00104972 4103 52 97%
1964 3485 0.000896439 3446 39 98%
1965 2897 0.000799073 2859 38 97%
1966 2340 0.000673254 2301 39 97%
1967 2059 0.000606499 2022 37 96%
1968 1834 0.000542858 1802 32 97%
1969 1599 0.000460101 1562 37 95%
1970 1448 0.000401496 1424 24 97%
1971 1223 0.000356315 1184 39 94%
1972 1021 0.00032485 987 34 93%
1973 776 0.000257219 746 30 92%
1974 653 0.000214803 628 25 92%
1975 586 0.000194079 560 26 91%
1976 495 0.000163135 475 20 92%
1977 406 0.000127814 392 14 93%
1978 403 0.000126974 392 11 95%
1979 363 0.000109107 350 13 93%
1980 309 0.000089708 303 6 96%
1981 307 0.000088744 290 17 89%
1982 312 0.000088941 306 6 96%
1983 281 0.000081136 275 6 96%
1984 243 0.000069652 238 5 96%
1985 194 0.000054355 194 100%
1986 159 0.0000447 154 5 94%
1987 152 0.000042156 144 8 89%
1988 142 0.00003843 136 6 92%
1989 137 0.000035636 131 6 91%
1990 127 0.000032132 127 100%
1991 117 0.000030036 117 100%
1992 93 0.000024211 93 100%
1993 77 0.000020423 77 100%
1994 65 0.000017484 65 100%
1995 54 0.000014745 54 100%
1996 63 0.000017274 63 100%
1997 58 0.000015997 58 100%
1998 57 0.000015497 57 100%
1999 41 0.000011099 41 100%
2000 37 0.000009789 37 100%
2001 28 0.00000748 28 100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 100%
2003 37 0.000009731 37 100%
2004 46 0.000012039 46 100%
2005 24 0.000006242 24 100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 100%
2008 19 0.000004834 19 100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2013 24 0.000006583 24 100%
2014 13 0.000003507 13 100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 100%
2018 18 0.00000512 18 100%
2019 15 0.000004322 15 100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 100%
2021 20 0.000005903 20 100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 17 0.000005107 17 100%

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