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How popular is “Gayle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gayle” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gayle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gayle” 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
1891 9 0.000031395 9 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 100%
1897 11 0.000031704 11 100%
1898 17 0.000044566 10 7 18%
1899 12 0.000035374 12 100%
1900 16 0.000035535 9 7 13%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 100%
1902 18 0.000046544 18 100%
1904 15 0.000037176 9 6 20%
1905 20 0.000047178 20 100%
1906 17 0.000039678 12 5 41%
1907 20 0.000042975 20 100%
1908 15 0.000030697 6 9 -20%
1909 18 0.00003521 18 100%
1910 20 0.000033858 15 5 50%
1911 22 0.000034147 16 6 45%
1912 54 0.000054652 35 19 30%
1913 60 0.000052765 39 21 30%
1914 83 0.000058602 55 28 33%
1915 126 0.000068761 84 42 33%
1916 166 0.000085814 107 59 29%
1917 184 0.000091691 127 57 38%
1918 183 0.000084289 125 58 37%
1919 154 0.000072977 113 41 47%
1920 159 0.000070272 102 57 28%
1921 163 0.000069822 106 57 30%
1922 160 0.000069895 102 58 28%
1923 154 0.000066884 87 67 13%
1924 185 0.000077679 107 78 16%
1925 178 0.000076287 100 78 12%
1926 166 0.000072303 98 68 18%
1927 183 0.000078901 96 87 5%
1928 203 0.000089786 119 84 17%
1929 190 0.000086672 108 82 14%
1930 228 0.000102551 139 89 22%
1931 261 0.000124027 167 94 28%
1932 339 0.000160565 225 114 33%
1933 364 0.00018205 239 125 31%
1934 645 0.000310572 476 169 48%
1935 855 0.00040911 705 150 65%
1936 898 0.000432234 717 181 60%
1937 865 0.000405976 720 145 66%
1938 952 0.000430268 803 149 69%
1939 967 0.000438859 843 124 74%
1940 1224 0.000531553 1085 139 77%
1941 1139 0.000467488 1007 132 77%
1942 1290 0.000472213 1188 102 84%
1943 1554 0.000550564 1423 131 83%
1944 1368 0.000508535 1233 135 80%
1945 1613 0.000608012 1491 122 85%
1946 2073 0.000648764 1927 146 86%
1947 2619 0.000727031 2485 134 90%
1948 2192 0.000634899 2066 126 89%
1949 2411 0.000691867 2293 118 90%
1950 2465 0.000703611 2368 97 92%
1951 2929 0.000795116 2826 103 93%
1952 2737 0.000720642 2636 101 93%
1953 2761 0.000716465 2666 95 93%
1954 2571 0.000645865 2498 73 94%
1955 2560 0.000637596 2483 77 94%
1956 2351 0.000570211 2287 64 95%
1957 2247 0.000534727 2190 57 95%
1958 2010 0.000486223 1947 63 94%
1959 1886 0.000453584 1826 60 94%
1960 1533 0.000369058 1493 40 95%
1961 1489 0.000359462 1448 41 94%
1962 1299 0.000321903 1266 33 95%
1963 1128 0.000284978 1108 20 96%
1964 1130 0.000290667 1105 25 96%
1965 998 0.000275276 956 42 92%
1966 812 0.000233625 776 36 91%
1967 710 0.000209137 695 15 96%
1968 667 0.00019743 652 15 96%
1969 638 0.00018358 618 20 94%
1970 552 0.000153056 535 17 94%
1971 461 0.00013431 446 15 93%
1972 338 0.000107541 322 16 91%
1973 280 0.000092811 263 17 88%
1974 272 0.000089474 263 9 93%
1975 193 0.00006392 184 9 91%
1976 204 0.000067231 193 11 89%
1977 186 0.000058555 170 16 83%
1978 174 0.000054823 174 100%
1979 167 0.000050195 158 9 89%
1980 145 0.000042096 145 100%
1981 156 0.000045095 146 10 87%
1982 149 0.000042475 149 100%
1983 112 0.000032339 112 100%
1984 111 0.000031817 104 7 87%
1985 108 0.00003026 97 11 80%
1986 92 0.000025864 83 9 80%
1987 79 0.00002191 79 100%
1988 70 0.000018944 70 100%
1989 78 0.000020289 71 7 82%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 100%
1991 48 0.000012323 48 100%
1992 43 0.000011194 43 100%
1993 42 0.00001114 42 100%
1994 36 0.000009684 36 100%
1995 30 0.000008192 30 100%
1996 45 0.000012338 45 100%
1997 31 0.00000855 31 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 18 0.000004873 18 100%
2000 20 0.000005291 20 100%
2001 30 0.000008014 30 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2005 9 0.000002341 9 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2011 6 0.00000164 6 100%
2012 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 100%
2017 11 0.000003076 11 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 100%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 100%

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