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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gaius” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaius” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaius” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaius” 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
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 -100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 -100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 -100%
2009 20 0.000005235 20 -100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2012 24 0.000006562 24 -100%
2013 30 0.000008229 30 -100%
2014 42 0.000011332 42 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 23 0.000006269 23 -100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 -100%
2019 22 0.000006338 22 -100%
2020 30 0.00000898 30 -100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 -100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 -100%
2023 17 0.000005134 17 -100%
2024 31 0.000009314 31 -100%

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