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How popular is “Gerald” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gerald” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gerald” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gerald” 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%
1881 14 0.000072656 14 -100%
1882 15 0.00006771 15 -100%
1883 13 0.000059923 13 -100%
1884 19 0.000078041 19 -100%
1885 23 0.000095494 23 -100%
1886 28 0.000109668 28 -100%
1887 22 0.000088928 22 -100%
1888 30 0.000100176 30 -100%
1889 48 0.000166121 48 -100%
1890 44 0.000145985 44 -100%
1891 45 0.000156973 45 -100%
1892 62 0.000185421 62 -100%
1893 55 0.000169115 55 -100%
1894 75 0.000221441 75 -100%
1895 76 0.000216512 76 -100%
1896 95 0.000265746 95 -100%
1897 93 0.000268045 93 -100%
1898 100 0.000262154 100 -100%
1899 108 0.000318364 108 -100%
1900 157 0.000348689 157 -100%
1901 133 0.000384602 133 -100%
1902 151 0.00039045 151 -100%
1903 182 0.00047744 182 -100%
1904 201 0.00049816 201 -100%
1905 189 0.000445837 189 -100%
1906 191 0.000445792 191 -100%
1907 239 0.000513548 239 -100%
1908 270 0.000552544 270 -100%
1909 301 0.000588783 301 -100%
1910 294 0.000497705 5 289 -97%
1911 462 0.000717082 462 -100%
1912 934 0.000945285 5 929 -99%
1913 1148 0.001009577 6 1142 -99%
1914 1475 0.001041414 7 1468 -99%
1915 2093 0.001142202 8 2085 -99%
1916 2272 0.001174514 12 2260 -99%
1917 2497 0.001244301 11 2486 -99%
1918 2736 0.001260184 24 2712 -98%
1919 2706 0.001282316 17 2689 -99%
1920 3178 0.001404552 21 3157 -99%
1921 3406 0.001458982 24 3382 -99%
1922 3564 0.001556906 23 3541 -99%
1923 3721 0.001616083 25 3696 -99%
1924 4172 0.001751756 21 4151 -99%
1925 4546 0.001948312 39 4507 -98%
1926 5171 0.002252271 48 5123 -98%
1927 5567 0.002400233 56 5511 -98%
1928 5527 0.002444561 40 5487 -99%
1929 6015 0.002743868 49 5966 -98%
1930 6522 0.002933493 40 6482 -99%
1931 6878 0.003268409 55 6823 -98%
1932 7391 0.003500702 44 7347 -99%
1933 7465 0.003733532 43 7422 -99%
1934 7865 0.003787047 49 7816 -99%
1935 8506 0.004070051 48 8458 -99%
1936 9056 0.004358922 39 9017 -99%
1937 9475 0.004446958 51 9424 -99%
1938 10009 0.00452369 37 9972 -99%
1939 10105 0.004586007 48 10057 -99%
1940 10280 0.004464353 43 10237 -99%
1941 10984 0.004508245 43 10941 -99%
1942 11520 0.004216972 37 11483 -99%
1943 11423 0.004047037 55 11368 -99%
1944 10059 0.003739295 38 10021 -99%
1945 8893 0.003352168 36 8857 -99%
1946 10067 0.003150558 33 10034 -99%
1947 10796 0.002996956 46 10750 -99%
1948 9879 0.00286139 37 9842 -99%
1949 9837 0.00282285 28 9809 -99%
1950 9765 0.002787326 40 9725 -99%
1951 9570 0.002597904 31 9539 -99%
1952 9063 0.002386253 32 9031 -99%
1953 8654 0.002245667 35 8619 -99%
1954 8588 0.002157405 38 8550 -99%
1955 8105 0.00201864 32 8073 -99%
1956 8024 0.001946138 33 7991 -99%
1957 7630 0.00181574 34 7596 -99%
1958 6899 0.001668882 33 6866 -99%
1959 6676 0.001605583 41 6635 -99%
1960 6602 0.001589382 36 6566 -99%
1961 6673 0.00161094 44 6629 -99%
1962 6265 0.001552521 32 6233 -99%
1963 6186 0.001562832 33 6153 -99%
1964 5902 0.001518158 32 5870 -99%
1965 5290 0.00145913 38 5252 -99%
1966 4893 0.001407792 30 4863 -99%
1967 4914 0.001447467 39 4875 -98%
1968 4504 0.00133317 29 4475 -99%
1969 4425 0.001273263 41 4384 -98%
1970 4442 0.00123166 43 4399 -98%
1971 3621 0.001054961 33 3588 -98%
1972 2831 0.000900734 15 2816 -99%
1973 2622 0.000869108 29 2593 -98%
1974 2437 0.000801645 20 2417 -98%
1975 2414 0.000799498 16 2398 -99%
1976 2159 0.000711531 19 2140 -98%
1977 2061 0.000648829 15 2046 -99%
1978 1908 0.000601159 19 1889 -98%
1979 1885 0.000566576 22 1863 -98%
1980 1836 0.000533023 17 1819 -98%
1981 1780 0.000514544 16 1764 -98%
1982 1740 0.000496014 22 1718 -97%
1983 1567 0.000452454 17 1550 -98%
1984 1457 0.000417627 13 1444 -98%
1985 1460 0.000409066 14 1446 -98%
1986 1465 0.000411855 10 1455 -99%
1987 1451 0.000402428 10 1441 -99%
1988 1412 0.000382134 9 1403 -99%
1989 1478 0.000384451 9 1469 -99%
1990 1451 0.000367111 1451 -100%
1991 1266 0.00032501 5 1261 -99%
1992 1182 0.00030771 8 1174 -99%
1993 1126 0.000298652 10 1116 -98%
1994 954 0.000256614 954 -100%
1995 889 0.000242753 889 -100%
1996 822 0.000225379 822 -100%
1997 773 0.000213197 773 -100%
1998 671 0.000182426 671 -100%
1999 686 0.000185713 686 -100%
2000 680 0.000179899 680 -100%
2001 609 0.000162687 609 -100%
2002 556 0.000148731 556 -100%
2003 529 0.000139126 529 -100%
2004 552 0.000144468 552 -100%
2005 472 0.000122762 472 -100%
2006 465 0.000117537 465 -100%
2007 472 0.000118068 472 -100%
2008 415 0.00010558 415 -100%
2009 396 0.00010366 396 -100%
2010 348 0.000094162 348 -100%
2011 373 0.000101974 373 -100%
2012 346 0.000094604 346 -100%
2013 329 0.000090244 329 -100%
2014 281 0.000075815 281 -100%
2015 312 0.000084304 312 -100%
2016 284 0.000077412 284 -100%
2017 271 0.000075779 271 -100%
2018 242 0.00006883 242 -100%
2019 245 0.000070586 245 -100%
2020 230 0.00006885 230 -100%
2021 217 0.000064051 217 -100%
2022 206 0.00006089 206 -100%
2023 212 0.000064025 212 -100%
2024 178 0.000053478 178 -100%

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