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How popular is “Gaylan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaylan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaylan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaylan” 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
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 8 0.000003828 8 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 23 0.000006662 5 18 -57%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 -100%
1950 28 0.000007992 8 20 -43%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 -100%
1952 37 0.000009742 6 31 -68%
1953 17 0.000004411 6 11 -29%
1954 18 0.000004522 5 13 -44%
1955 22 0.000005479 5 17 -55%
1956 13 0.000003153 13 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 9 0.000002177 9 -100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 -100%
1960 19 0.000004574 5 14 -47%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 18 0.000004548 6 12 -33%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1966 7 0.000002014 7 -100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 -100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%

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