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How popular is “Gaylord” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaylord” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaylord” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaylord” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1887 9 0.00003638 9 -100%
1889 6 0.000020765 6 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1897 10 0.000028822 10 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 -100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 18 0.000036836 18 -100%
1909 21 0.000041078 21 -100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 -100%
1911 16 0.000024834 16 -100%
1912 40 0.000040483 40 -100%
1913 59 0.000051886 59 -100%
1914 81 0.000057189 81 -100%
1915 109 0.000059484 109 -100%
1916 102 0.000052729 102 -100%
1917 107 0.00005332 107 -100%
1918 139 0.000064023 139 -100%
1919 110 0.000052127 110 -100%
1920 126 0.000055687 126 -100%
1921 113 0.000048404 113 -100%
1922 119 0.000051984 119 -100%
1923 128 0.000055592 128 -100%
1924 119 0.000049966 119 -100%
1925 112 0.000048001 112 -100%
1926 131 0.000057058 131 -100%
1927 134 0.000057775 134 -100%
1928 132 0.000058383 132 -100%
1929 109 0.000049723 109 -100%
1930 132 0.000059372 132 -100%
1931 168 0.000079833 168 -100%
1932 136 0.000064416 136 -100%
1933 96 0.000048013 96 -100%
1934 132 0.000063559 132 -100%
1935 109 0.000052156 109 -100%
1936 118 0.000056797 118 -100%
1937 114 0.000053504 114 -100%
1938 134 0.000060563 134 -100%
1939 124 0.000056276 124 -100%
1940 127 0.000055153 127 -100%
1941 136 0.000055819 136 -100%
1942 160 0.000058569 5 155 -94%
1943 146 0.000051726 146 -100%
1944 120 0.000044608 120 -100%
1945 116 0.000043726 116 -100%
1946 117 0.000036616 117 -100%
1947 120 0.000033312 120 -100%
1948 113 0.00003273 113 -100%
1949 120 0.000034435 120 -100%
1950 94 0.000026831 94 -100%
1951 91 0.000024703 91 -100%
1952 109 0.000028699 109 -100%
1953 86 0.000022317 86 -100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 -100%
1955 65 0.000016189 65 -100%
1956 81 0.000019646 81 -100%
1957 57 0.000013565 57 -100%
1958 42 0.00001016 42 -100%
1959 51 0.000012266 51 -100%
1960 39 0.000009389 39 -100%
1961 43 0.000010381 43 -100%
1962 47 0.000011647 47 -100%
1963 38 0.0000096 38 -100%
1964 30 0.000007717 30 -100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 -100%
1966 23 0.000006617 23 -100%
1967 35 0.00001031 35 -100%
1968 18 0.000005328 18 -100%
1969 24 0.000006906 24 -100%
1970 23 0.000006377 23 -100%
1971 36 0.000010488 36 -100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 -100%
1973 29 0.000009613 29 -100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 -100%
1975 20 0.000006624 20 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 -100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%

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