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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gayla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gayla” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gayla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gayla” 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
1921 7 0.000002998 7 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 100%
1933 18 0.000009002 18 100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 100%
1935 25 0.000011962 25 100%
1936 48 0.000023104 48 100%
1937 56 0.000026283 56 100%
1938 67 0.000030281 67 100%
1939 63 0.000028592 63 100%
1940 58 0.000025188 58 100%
1941 75 0.000030783 75 100%
1942 92 0.000033677 92 100%
1943 80 0.000028343 80 100%
1944 78 0.000028995 78 100%
1945 88 0.000033171 88 100%
1946 168 0.000052577 168 100%
1947 213 0.000059129 213 100%
1948 224 0.00006488 224 100%
1949 276 0.000079202 276 100%
1950 237 0.000067649 237 100%
1951 282 0.000076553 282 100%
1952 287 0.000075566 287 100%
1953 481 0.000124817 481 100%
1954 617 0.000154998 617 100%
1955 432 0.000107594 432 100%
1956 397 0.000096288 397 100%
1957 390 0.00009281 390 100%
1958 373 0.000090229 373 100%
1959 421 0.000101251 421 100%
1960 399 0.000096056 399 100%
1961 466 0.000112498 460 6 97%
1962 370 0.000091689 370 100%
1963 353 0.000089182 353 100%
1964 355 0.000091316 355 100%
1965 333 0.000091851 333 100%
1966 309 0.000088904 309 100%
1967 264 0.000077764 264 100%
1968 252 0.000074591 252 100%
1969 235 0.00006762 235 100%
1970 227 0.000062942 227 100%
1971 193 0.00005623 193 100%
1972 140 0.000044544 140 100%
1973 118 0.000039113 118 100%
1974 94 0.000030921 94 100%
1975 103 0.000034113 103 100%
1976 83 0.000027354 83 100%
1977 105 0.000033055 105 100%
1978 71 0.00002237 71 100%
1979 66 0.000019838 66 100%
1980 46 0.000013355 46 100%
1981 47 0.000013586 47 100%
1982 50 0.000014253 50 100%
1983 42 0.000012127 42 100%
1984 32 0.000009172 32 100%
1985 31 0.000008686 31 100%
1986 27 0.00000759 27 100%
1987 50 0.000013867 50 100%
1988 30 0.000008119 30 100%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 100%
1990 25 0.000006325 25 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 22 0.000005727 22 100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 28 0.000007532 28 100%
1995 29 0.000007919 29 100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 100%
1997 27 0.000007447 27 100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 100%
2001 13 0.000003473 13 100%
2002 8 0.00000214 8 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 9 0.000002355 9 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2006 8 0.000002022 8 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%

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