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How popular is “Gene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gene” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gene” 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 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1881 12 0.000062277 12 -100%
1882 21 0.000094794 7 14 -33%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 -100%
1884 11 0.000045182 11 -100%
1885 25 0.000103797 5 20 -60%
1886 13 0.000050917 13 -100%
1887 26 0.000105096 7 19 -46%
1888 24 0.000080141 12 12 0%
1889 20 0.000069217 9 11 -10%
1890 28 0.000092899 11 17 -21%
1891 31 0.000108137 16 15 3%
1892 38 0.000113645 15 23 -21%
1893 34 0.000104544 12 22 -29%
1894 27 0.000079719 8 19 -41%
1895 42 0.000119651 14 28 -33%
1896 48 0.000134272 19 29 -21%
1897 30 0.000086466 11 19 -27%
1898 44 0.000115348 19 25 -14%
1899 37 0.000109069 15 22 -19%
1900 74 0.00016435 26 48 -30%
1901 54 0.000156154 23 31 -15%
1902 66 0.00017066 25 41 -24%
1903 77 0.000201994 32 45 -17%
1904 81 0.000200751 23 58 -43%
1905 68 0.000160407 24 44 -29%
1906 88 0.000205391 25 63 -43%
1907 89 0.000191237 24 65 -46%
1908 98 0.000200553 20 78 -59%
1909 120 0.000234731 39 81 -35%
1910 123 0.000208224 32 91 -48%
1911 147 0.000228162 45 102 -39%
1912 241 0.000243912 54 187 -55%
1913 324 0.000284933 76 248 -53%
1914 461 0.000325486 109 352 -53%
1915 633 0.000345444 140 493 -56%
1916 636 0.000328781 119 517 -63%
1917 716 0.000356796 174 542 -51%
1918 813 0.000374463 151 662 -63%
1919 836 0.000396163 160 676 -62%
1920 1014 0.000448148 204 810 -60%
1921 1056 0.000452344 183 873 -65%
1922 1303 0.000569205 214 1089 -67%
1923 1387 0.000602394 217 1170 -69%
1924 1532 0.000643262 257 1275 -66%
1925 1953 0.000837011 374 1579 -62%
1926 2361 0.001028353 278 2083 -76%
1927 3048 0.001314157 246 2802 -84%
1928 3311 0.001464436 223 3088 -87%
1929 2971 0.001355284 161 2810 -89%
1930 2955 0.001329113 168 2787 -89%
1931 2888 0.001372371 122 2766 -92%
1932 3069 0.001453613 117 2952 -92%
1933 2867 0.001433896 87 2780 -94%
1934 2934 0.00141274 80 2854 -95%
1935 3006 0.001438346 69 2937 -95%
1936 2983 0.001435807 74 2909 -95%
1937 3240 0.001520648 75 3165 -95%
1938 3224 0.001457126 75 3149 -95%
1939 3084 0.001399628 71 3013 -95%
1940 3120 0.00135494 59 3061 -96%
1941 3150 0.001292878 77 3073 -95%
1942 3253 0.001190782 126 3127 -92%
1943 2968 0.001051528 102 2866 -93%
1944 2709 0.001007034 107 2602 -92%
1945 2479 0.000934446 106 2373 -91%
1946 2893 0.00090539 135 2758 -91%
1947 3010 0.000835572 114 2896 -92%
1948 2631 0.000762052 90 2541 -93%
1949 2538 0.000728311 95 2443 -93%
1950 2329 0.000664791 79 2250 -93%
1951 2305 0.000625723 74 2231 -94%
1952 2134 0.000561874 61 2073 -94%
1953 2067 0.000536375 62 2005 -94%
1954 1963 0.000493128 63 1900 -94%
1955 1951 0.000485918 59 1892 -94%
1956 1802 0.000437056 48 1754 -95%
1957 1876 0.000446439 37 1839 -96%
1958 1865 0.000451147 48 1817 -95%
1959 1969 0.000473546 35 1934 -96%
1960 1828 0.000440077 34 1794 -96%
1961 1689 0.000407744 22 1667 -97%
1962 1545 0.000382864 31 1514 -96%
1963 1585 0.000400435 21 1564 -97%
1964 1557 0.000400504 27 1530 -97%
1965 1328 0.000366299 21 1307 -97%
1966 1158 0.000333175 12 1146 -98%
1967 1092 0.000321659 24 1068 -96%
1968 1103 0.000326485 31 1072 -94%
1969 1050 0.00030213 12 1038 -98%
1970 960 0.000266185 26 934 -95%
1971 903 0.000263085 25 878 -94%
1972 766 0.000243717 24 742 -94%
1973 639 0.000211808 14 625 -96%
1974 587 0.000193092 17 570 -94%
1975 573 0.000189773 17 556 -94%
1976 478 0.000157532 14 464 -94%
1977 536 0.000168739 13 523 -95%
1978 463 0.000145879 10 453 -96%
1979 499 0.000149985 11 488 -96%
1980 463 0.000134417 12 451 -95%
1981 437 0.000126323 19 418 -91%
1982 424 0.000120868 11 413 -95%
1983 386 0.000111453 12 374 -94%
1984 384 0.000110068 9 375 -95%
1985 351 0.000098344 7 344 -96%
1986 337 0.000094741 9 328 -95%
1987 331 0.000091801 7 324 -96%
1988 316 0.00008552 13 303 -92%
1989 297 0.000077254 6 291 -96%
1990 277 0.000070083 10 267 -93%
1991 313 0.000080354 8 305 -95%
1992 258 0.000067165 6 252 -95%
1993 231 0.000061269 10 221 -91%
1994 209 0.000056218 209 -100%
1995 183 0.000049971 9 174 -90%
1996 176 0.000048256 6 170 -93%
1997 169 0.000046611 5 164 -94%
1998 143 0.000038878 7 136 -90%
1999 160 0.000043315 160 -100%
2000 123 0.000032541 123 -100%
2001 134 0.000035796 5 129 -93%
2002 99 0.000026483 99 -100%
2003 111 0.000029193 5 106 -91%
2004 114 0.000029836 5 109 -91%
2005 99 0.000025749 6 93 -88%
2006 95 0.000024013 95 -100%
2007 85 0.000021262 85 -100%
2008 79 0.000020098 79 -100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 -100%
2010 65 0.000017588 65 -100%
2011 66 0.000018044 5 61 -85%
2012 71 0.000019413 71 -100%
2013 67 0.000018378 67 -100%
2014 53 0.0000143 53 -100%
2015 75 0.000020265 8 67 -79%
2016 78 0.000021261 78 -100%
2017 88 0.000024607 88 -100%
2018 71 0.000020194 7 64 -80%
2019 86 0.000024777 6 80 -86%
2020 96 0.000028738 96 -100%
2021 81 0.000023908 81 -100%
2022 74 0.000021873 74 -100%
2023 75 0.00002265 75 -100%
2024 88 0.000026438 5 83 -89%

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