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How popular is “Geoffrey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Geoffrey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Geoffrey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Geoffrey” 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
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1908 8 0.000016372 8 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 17 0.00001495 17 -100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 -100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 -100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 -100%
1917 18 0.00000897 18 -100%
1918 24 0.000011054 24 -100%
1919 23 0.000010899 23 -100%
1920 20 0.000008839 20 -100%
1921 23 0.000009852 23 -100%
1922 12 0.000005242 12 -100%
1923 22 0.000009555 22 -100%
1924 20 0.000008398 20 -100%
1925 22 0.000009429 22 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 25 0.000010779 25 -100%
1928 19 0.000008404 19 -100%
1929 20 0.000009123 20 -100%
1930 30 0.000013494 30 -100%
1931 31 0.000014731 31 -100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 -100%
1933 39 0.000019505 39 -100%
1934 31 0.000014927 31 -100%
1935 26 0.000012441 26 -100%
1936 43 0.000020697 43 -100%
1937 51 0.000023936 51 -100%
1938 69 0.000031185 69 -100%
1939 88 0.000039938 88 -100%
1940 148 0.000064273 148 -100%
1941 223 0.000091528 223 -100%
1942 235 0.000086023 235 -100%
1943 300 0.000106287 300 -100%
1944 279 0.000103714 279 -100%
1945 321 0.000120999 321 -100%
1946 458 0.000143335 458 -100%
1947 578 0.000160452 578 -100%
1948 584 0.000169152 584 -100%
1949 588 0.000168734 588 -100%
1950 614 0.00017526 614 -100%
1951 565 0.000153377 565 -100%
1952 624 0.000164297 624 -100%
1953 668 0.000173342 668 -100%
1954 670 0.000168312 670 -100%
1955 710 0.000176833 710 -100%
1956 793 0.000192334 793 -100%
1957 747 0.000177766 747 -100%
1958 773 0.00018699 773 -100%
1959 734 0.000176528 734 -100%
1960 798 0.000192113 798 -100%
1961 824 0.000198923 824 -100%
1962 794 0.00019676 794 -100%
1963 826 0.000208681 5 821 -99%
1964 851 0.000218901 5 846 -99%
1965 866 0.000238867 866 -100%
1966 838 0.000241106 838 -100%
1967 883 0.000260096 883 -100%
1968 953 0.000282085 6 947 -99%
1969 1145 0.000329466 7 1138 -99%
1970 1293 0.000358518 6 1287 -99%
1971 1204 0.00035078 8 1196 -99%
1972 1061 0.000337576 8 1053 -98%
1973 977 0.000323844 977 -100%
1974 1179 0.000387829 1179 -100%
1975 1395 0.000462013 1395 -100%
1976 1306 0.000430412 9 1297 -99%
1977 1263 0.000397608 1263 -100%
1978 1277 0.000402348 5 1272 -99%
1979 1271 0.000382026 8 1263 -99%
1980 1231 0.000357381 7 1224 -99%
1981 1253 0.000362204 8 1245 -99%
1982 1299 0.0003703 10 1289 -98%
1983 1330 0.000384022 10 1320 -98%
1984 1325 0.000379792 1325 -100%
1985 1330 0.000372642 8 1322 -99%
1986 1271 0.000357316 8 1263 -99%
1987 1315 0.000364709 10 1305 -98%
1988 1238 0.000335043 7 1231 -99%
1989 1208 0.000314219 1208 -100%
1990 1098 0.0002778 1098 -100%
1991 972 0.000249534 972 -100%
1992 845 0.000219979 845 -100%
1993 675 0.000179032 5 670 -99%
1994 612 0.00016462 612 -100%
1995 536 0.000146362 536 -100%
1996 416 0.00011406 416 -100%
1997 375 0.000103427 375 -100%
1998 367 0.000099777 367 -100%
1999 280 0.000075801 280 -100%
2000 278 0.000073547 278 -100%
2001 269 0.00007186 269 -100%
2002 240 0.0000642 240 -100%
2003 236 0.000062067 236 -100%
2004 209 0.000054699 209 -100%
2005 174 0.000045255 174 -100%
2006 170 0.000042971 170 -100%
2007 153 0.000038272 153 -100%
2008 116 0.000029512 116 -100%
2009 150 0.000039265 150 -100%
2010 103 0.00002787 103 -100%
2011 115 0.00003144 115 -100%
2012 120 0.00003281 120 -100%
2013 104 0.000028527 104 -100%
2014 97 0.000026171 97 -100%
2015 81 0.000021886 81 -100%
2016 80 0.000021806 80 -100%
2017 76 0.000021252 76 -100%
2018 70 0.00001991 70 -100%
2019 55 0.000015846 55 -100%
2020 46 0.00001377 46 -100%
2021 40 0.000011807 40 -100%
2022 48 0.000014188 48 -100%
2023 53 0.000016006 53 -100%
2024 40 0.000012017 40 -100%

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