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How popular is “Gena” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gena” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gena” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gena” 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
1880 11 0.000054595 11 100%
1882 12 0.000054168 12 100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 100%
1884 10 0.000041074 10 100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1886 13 0.000050917 13 100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 100%
1888 14 0.000046749 14 100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 100%
1891 21 0.000073254 21 100%
1892 21 0.000062804 21 100%
1893 14 0.000043047 14 100%
1894 12 0.000035431 12 100%
1895 16 0.000045581 16 100%
1896 15 0.00004196 15 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 100%
1900 21 0.00004664 21 100%
1901 13 0.000037593 13 100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 100%
1903 14 0.000036726 14 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 15 0.000035384 15 100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 100%
1913 19 0.000016709 19 100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 100%
1915 32 0.000017463 32 100%
1916 36 0.00001861 36 100%
1917 25 0.000012458 25 100%
1918 22 0.000010133 22 100%
1919 32 0.000015164 32 100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 100%
1921 33 0.000014136 33 100%
1922 30 0.000013105 30 100%
1923 36 0.000015635 36 100%
1924 29 0.000012177 29 100%
1925 30 0.000012857 30 100%
1926 23 0.000010018 23 100%
1927 32 0.000013797 32 100%
1928 24 0.000010615 24 100%
1929 26 0.00001186 26 100%
1930 33 0.000014843 33 100%
1931 19 0.000009029 19 100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 100%
1933 28 0.000014004 28 100%
1934 22 0.000010593 22 100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 100%
1936 21 0.000010108 21 100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 19 0.000007798 19 100%
1942 25 0.000009151 25 100%
1943 36 0.000012754 36 100%
1944 23 0.00000855 23 100%
1945 30 0.000011308 30 100%
1946 34 0.000010641 34 100%
1947 53 0.000014713 53 100%
1948 61 0.000017668 61 100%
1949 53 0.000015209 53 100%
1950 62 0.000017697 62 100%
1951 60 0.000016288 60 100%
1952 70 0.000018431 70 100%
1953 73 0.000018943 73 100%
1954 83 0.000020851 83 100%
1955 158 0.000039352 158 100%
1956 167 0.000040504 167 100%
1957 166 0.000039504 166 100%
1958 197 0.000047655 197 100%
1959 197 0.000047379 197 100%
1960 267 0.000064278 267 100%
1961 273 0.000065905 273 100%
1962 397 0.00009838 397 100%
1963 458 0.000115709 458 100%
1964 459 0.000118068 459 100%
1965 325 0.000089644 325 100%
1966 411 0.000118251 411 100%
1967 486 0.000143156 486 100%
1968 502 0.00014859 502 100%
1969 389 0.000111932 389 100%
1970 401 0.000111188 401 100%
1971 397 0.000115664 397 100%
1972 363 0.000115495 363 100%
1973 313 0.000103749 313 100%
1974 284 0.000093421 284 100%
1975 361 0.00011956 361 100%
1976 268 0.000088324 268 100%
1977 297 0.000093499 297 100%
1978 264 0.000083179 264 100%
1979 267 0.000080252 267 100%
1980 209 0.000060676 209 100%
1981 212 0.000061283 212 100%
1982 189 0.000053877 189 100%
1983 171 0.000049374 171 100%
1984 202 0.0000579 202 100%
1985 173 0.000048471 173 100%
1986 149 0.000041888 149 100%
1987 152 0.000042156 152 100%
1988 128 0.000034641 128 100%
1989 126 0.000032775 126 100%
1990 107 0.000027072 107 100%
1991 96 0.000024645 96 100%
1992 104 0.000027074 104 100%
1993 98 0.000025993 98 100%
1994 71 0.000019098 71 100%
1995 60 0.000016384 60 100%
1996 63 0.000017274 63 100%
1997 68 0.000018755 68 100%
1998 51 0.000013865 51 100%
1999 47 0.000012724 47 100%
2000 68 0.00001799 68 100%
2001 51 0.000013624 51 100%
2002 39 0.000010433 39 100%
2003 43 0.000011309 43 100%
2004 36 0.000009422 36 100%
2005 30 0.000007803 30 100%
2006 22 0.000005561 22 100%
2007 30 0.000007504 30 100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 100%
2009 21 0.000005497 21 100%
2010 16 0.000004329 16 100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 16 0.000004389 16 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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