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How popular is “Gennifer” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gennifer” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gennifer” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gennifer” 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
1957 5 0.00000119 5 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 22 0.00000633 22 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 100%
1969 28 0.000008057 28 100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 100%
1971 40 0.000011654 40 100%
1972 44 0.000013999 44 100%
1973 44 0.000014585 44 100%
1974 36 0.000011842 36 100%
1975 42 0.00001391 42 100%
1976 48 0.000015819 48 100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 100%
1978 40 0.000012603 40 100%
1979 44 0.000013225 44 100%
1980 39 0.000011322 39 100%
1981 46 0.000013297 46 100%
1982 50 0.000014253 50 100%
1983 50 0.000014437 50 100%
1984 48 0.000013758 48 100%
1985 28 0.000007845 28 100%
1986 22 0.000006185 22 100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 100%
1988 27 0.000007307 27 100%
1989 23 0.000005983 23 100%
1990 28 0.000007084 28 100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 100%
1992 39 0.000010153 39 100%
1993 26 0.000006896 26 100%
1994 30 0.00000807 30 100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 100%
1997 17 0.000004689 17 100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 9 0.000002381 9 100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 100%
2002 9 0.000002408 9 100%
2003 7 0.000001841 7 100%
2007 10 0.000002501 10 100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%

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