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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gaye” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaye” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaye” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaye” 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%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 100%
1917 9 0.000004485 9 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 100%
1920 9 0.000003978 9 100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1927 12 0.000005174 12 100%
1928 21 0.000009288 21 100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 100%
1930 18 0.000008096 18 100%
1931 27 0.00001283 27 100%
1932 40 0.000018946 40 100%
1933 38 0.000019005 38 100%
1934 46 0.000022149 46 100%
1935 82 0.000039236 82 100%
1936 96 0.000046208 96 100%
1937 80 0.000037547 80 100%
1938 80 0.000036157 80 100%
1939 92 0.000041753 92 100%
1940 89 0.000038651 89 100%
1941 75 0.000030783 75 100%
1942 98 0.000035874 98 100%
1943 132 0.000046766 132 100%
1944 131 0.000048697 131 100%
1945 128 0.000048249 128 100%
1946 130 0.000040685 130 100%
1947 210 0.000058296 210 100%
1948 178 0.000051557 178 100%
1949 162 0.000046488 162 100%
1950 156 0.000044529 156 100%
1951 176 0.000047778 176 100%
1952 219 0.000057662 219 100%
1953 222 0.000057608 222 100%
1954 207 0.000052001 207 100%
1955 196 0.000048816 196 100%
1956 222 0.000053844 222 100%
1957 193 0.000045929 193 100%
1958 194 0.000046929 194 100%
1959 259 0.00006229 259 100%
1960 268 0.000064519 268 100%
1961 229 0.000055283 229 100%
1962 204 0.000050553 204 100%
1963 158 0.000039917 158 100%
1964 155 0.00003987 155 100%
1965 128 0.000035306 128 100%
1966 93 0.000026758 93 100%
1967 84 0.000024743 84 100%
1968 63 0.000018648 63 100%
1969 67 0.000019279 67 100%
1970 47 0.000013032 47 100%
1971 32 0.000009323 32 100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%

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