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How popular is “Geral” in the USA?

Number of people named “Geral” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Geral” by birth year

This chart shows how “Geral” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1920 11 0.000004862 6 5 9%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 7 5 17%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 5 5 0%
1929 13 0.00000593 5 8 -23%
1930 10 0.000004498 5 5 0%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 5 5 0%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1938 13 0.000005876 5 8 -23%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 15 0.000006514 6 9 -20%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 7 7 0%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 10 7 18%
1947 15 0.000004164 5 10 -33%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 13 0.000003731 6 7 -8%
1951 19 0.000005158 12 7 26%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1953 11 0.000002854 11 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1960 10 0.000002407 5 5 0%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 -100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 -100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 -100%

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