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How popular is “Gearldine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gearldine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gearldine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gearldine” 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
1908 5 0.000010232 5 100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 100%
1915 21 0.00001146 21 100%
1916 21 0.000010856 21 100%
1917 27 0.000013455 27 100%
1918 26 0.000011975 26 100%
1919 45 0.000021325 45 100%
1920 68 0.000030053 68 100%
1921 65 0.000027843 65 100%
1922 66 0.000028832 66 100%
1923 66 0.000028665 66 100%
1924 94 0.000039469 94 100%
1925 84 0.000036 84 100%
1926 104 0.000045298 104 100%
1927 126 0.000054325 126 100%
1928 100 0.000044229 100 100%
1929 111 0.000050635 111 100%
1930 122 0.000054874 122 100%
1931 110 0.000052272 110 100%
1932 115 0.000054469 115 100%
1933 146 0.00007302 146 100%
1934 134 0.000064522 134 100%
1935 165 0.000078951 165 100%
1936 138 0.000066423 138 100%
1937 131 0.000061483 131 100%
1938 145 0.000065535 145 100%
1939 150 0.000068075 145 5 93%
1940 156 0.000067747 156 100%
1941 129 0.000052946 129 100%
1942 157 0.000057471 157 100%
1943 144 0.000051018 144 100%
1944 124 0.000046095 124 100%
1945 130 0.000049003 130 100%
1946 127 0.000039746 127 100%
1947 121 0.000033589 121 100%
1948 118 0.000034178 118 100%
1949 103 0.000029557 103 100%
1950 97 0.000027688 97 100%
1951 76 0.000020631 76 100%
1952 79 0.0000208 79 100%
1953 84 0.000021798 84 100%
1954 79 0.000019846 79 100%
1955 49 0.000012204 49 100%
1956 70 0.000016978 70 100%
1957 54 0.000012851 54 100%
1958 40 0.000009676 40 100%
1959 42 0.000010101 42 100%
1960 39 0.000009389 39 100%
1961 35 0.000008449 35 100%
1962 37 0.000009169 37 100%
1963 31 0.000007832 31 100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 100%
1965 24 0.00000662 24 100%
1966 20 0.000005754 20 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 14 0.000004144 14 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%

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