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How popular is “Gaile” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaile” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaile” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaile” 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
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 100%
1934 18 0.000008667 18 100%
1935 18 0.000008613 18 100%
1936 21 0.000010108 21 100%
1937 21 0.000009856 21 100%
1938 25 0.000011299 25 100%
1939 23 0.000010438 23 100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 100%
1941 23 0.00000944 23 100%
1942 24 0.000008785 24 100%
1943 29 0.000010274 29 100%
1944 23 0.00000855 23 100%
1945 34 0.000012816 34 100%
1946 49 0.000015335 49 100%
1947 43 0.000011937 38 5 77%
1948 27 0.00000782 27 100%
1949 32 0.000009183 32 100%
1950 38 0.000010847 38 100%
1951 38 0.000010316 38 100%
1952 29 0.000007636 29 100%
1953 30 0.000007785 30 100%
1954 30 0.000007536 30 100%
1955 25 0.000006227 25 100%
1956 35 0.000008489 35 100%
1957 19 0.000004522 19 100%
1958 15 0.000003629 15 100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 100%
1960 14 0.00000337 14 100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 100%
1962 17 0.000004213 17 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%

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