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How popular is “Gaylyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gaylyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gaylyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gaylyn” 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
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 21 0.000005204 21 100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 100%
1964 15 0.000003858 15 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%

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