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How popular is “Gaylene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaylene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaylene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaylene” 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
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 12 0.000005684 12 100%
1933 14 0.000007002 14 100%
1934 29 0.000013964 29 100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 100%
1936 32 0.000015403 32 100%
1937 24 0.000011264 24 100%
1938 42 0.000018982 42 100%
1939 32 0.000014523 32 100%
1940 34 0.000014765 34 100%
1941 36 0.000014776 36 100%
1942 39 0.000014276 39 100%
1943 58 0.000020549 58 100%
1944 37 0.000013754 37 100%
1945 44 0.000016586 44 100%
1946 47 0.000014709 47 100%
1947 70 0.000019432 70 100%
1948 64 0.000018537 64 100%
1949 67 0.000019226 67 100%
1950 73 0.000020837 73 100%
1951 81 0.000021989 81 100%
1952 84 0.000022117 84 100%
1953 88 0.000022836 88 100%
1954 73 0.000018338 73 100%
1955 82 0.000020423 82 100%
1956 118 0.00002862 118 100%
1957 104 0.000024749 104 100%
1958 93 0.000022497 93 100%
1959 100 0.00002405 100 100%
1960 94 0.00002263 94 100%
1961 94 0.000022693 94 100%
1962 93 0.000023046 93 100%
1963 80 0.000020211 80 100%
1964 66 0.000016977 66 100%
1965 71 0.000019584 71 100%
1966 65 0.000018702 65 100%
1967 60 0.000017674 60 100%
1968 53 0.000015688 53 100%
1969 40 0.00001151 40 100%
1970 44 0.0000122 44 100%
1971 37 0.00001078 37 100%
1972 35 0.000011136 35 100%
1973 20 0.000006629 20 100%
1974 16 0.000005263 16 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%

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