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How popular is “Gearl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gearl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gearl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gearl” 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
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 100%
1932 13 0.000006157 8 5 23%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 -100%
1936 16 0.000007701 6 10 -25%
1937 12 0.000005632 5 7 -17%
1938 16 0.000007231 7 9 -13%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 6 7 -8%
1941 12 0.000004925 5 7 -17%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 14 0.000004381 6 8 -14%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%

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