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How popular is “Gerard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gerard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gerard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gerard” 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
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1889 9 0.000031148 9 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 -100%
1895 14 0.000039884 14 -100%
1896 10 0.000027973 10 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 5 0.000013108 5 -100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1900 11 0.00002443 11 -100%
1901 15 0.000043376 15 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 11 0.000028856 11 -100%
1904 18 0.000044611 18 -100%
1905 25 0.000058973 25 -100%
1906 25 0.00005835 25 -100%
1907 32 0.00006876 32 -100%
1908 30 0.000061394 30 -100%
1909 39 0.000076287 39 -100%
1910 49 0.000082951 49 -100%
1911 89 0.000138139 89 -100%
1912 149 0.0001508 149 -100%
1913 206 0.000181161 5 201 -95%
1914 236 0.000166626 236 -100%
1915 323 0.000176269 323 -100%
1916 359 0.000185586 359 -100%
1917 413 0.000205805 413 -100%
1918 447 0.000205885 447 -100%
1919 410 0.00019429 410 -100%
1920 408 0.00018032 408 -100%
1921 530 0.000227029 530 -100%
1922 547 0.000238953 5 542 -98%
1923 554 0.00024061 554 -100%
1924 541 0.000227157 541 -100%
1925 554 0.000237432 554 -100%
1926 593 0.000258286 7 586 -98%
1927 629 0.000271196 629 -100%
1928 594 0.000262723 594 -100%
1929 552 0.000251806 552 -100%
1930 606 0.000272569 5 601 -98%
1931 551 0.000261834 551 -100%
1932 542 0.000256715 542 -100%
1933 536 0.000268074 536 -100%
1934 550 0.000264828 5 545 -98%
1935 525 0.000251208 525 -100%
1936 468 0.000225262 468 -100%
1937 478 0.000224343 478 -100%
1938 536 0.000242252 536 -100%
1939 521 0.000236448 521 -100%
1940 553 0.000240154 553 -100%
1941 694 0.000284844 5 689 -99%
1942 832 0.000304559 832 -100%
1943 770 0.000272802 770 -100%
1944 720 0.00026765 720 -100%
1945 681 0.000256699 681 -100%
1946 883 0.000276343 883 -100%
1947 988 0.000274268 5 983 -99%
1948 972 0.000281534 972 -100%
1949 1044 0.000299589 1044 -100%
1950 1160 0.000331111 1160 -100%
1951 1303 0.000353717 1303 -100%
1952 1347 0.00035466 9 1338 -99%
1953 1366 0.00035447 1366 -100%
1954 1520 0.000381842 1520 -100%
1955 1526 0.000380067 5 1521 -99%
1956 1617 0.000392187 1617 -100%
1957 1518 0.000361244 1518 -100%
1958 1480 0.000358015 5 1475 -99%
1959 1398 0.00033622 1398 -100%
1960 1394 0.000335595 1394 -100%
1961 1316 0.000317698 6 1310 -99%
1962 1127 0.00027928 8 1119 -99%
1963 1074 0.000271335 1074 -100%
1964 1029 0.000264687 5 1024 -99%
1965 831 0.000229213 5 826 -99%
1966 795 0.000228734 795 -100%
1967 665 0.000195882 665 -100%
1968 585 0.000173158 585 -100%
1969 543 0.000156244 543 -100%
1970 547 0.00015167 547 -100%
1971 516 0.000150334 516 -100%
1972 399 0.000126949 399 -100%
1973 377 0.000124963 377 -100%
1974 393 0.000129276 6 387 -97%
1975 399 0.000132146 399 -100%
1976 374 0.000123257 7 367 -96%
1977 348 0.000109555 348 -100%
1978 337 0.00010618 337 -100%
1979 341 0.000102495 5 336 -97%
1980 342 0.000099289 342 -100%
1981 316 0.000091346 316 -100%
1982 366 0.000104334 366 -100%
1983 303 0.000087488 303 -100%
1984 336 0.000096309 336 -100%
1985 343 0.000096102 343 -100%
1986 338 0.000095022 8 330 -95%
1987 320 0.00008875 6 314 -96%
1988 327 0.000088497 327 -100%
1989 326 0.000084798 326 -100%
1990 350 0.000088552 350 -100%
1991 309 0.000079327 309 -100%
1992 268 0.000069769 268 -100%
1993 250 0.000066308 250 -100%
1994 258 0.000069399 258 -100%
1995 213 0.000058162 213 -100%
1996 195 0.000053466 195 -100%
1997 190 0.000052403 190 -100%
1998 175 0.000047578 175 -100%
1999 175 0.000047376 175 -100%
2000 194 0.000051324 194 -100%
2001 146 0.000039002 146 -100%
2002 156 0.00004173 156 -100%
2003 134 0.000035242 134 -100%
2004 124 0.000032453 124 -100%
2005 113 0.00002939 113 -100%
2006 117 0.000029574 117 -100%
2007 99 0.000024764 99 -100%
2008 126 0.000032056 126 -100%
2009 130 0.00003403 130 -100%
2010 140 0.000037881 140 -100%
2011 172 0.000047023 172 -100%
2012 171 0.000046755 171 -100%
2013 183 0.000050197 183 -100%
2014 202 0.000054501 202 -100%
2015 180 0.000048637 180 -100%
2016 160 0.000043612 160 -100%
2017 161 0.00004502 161 -100%
2018 149 0.000042379 149 -100%
2019 116 0.00003342 116 -100%
2020 119 0.000035623 119 -100%
2021 121 0.000035715 121 -100%
2022 128 0.000037835 128 -100%
2023 130 0.000039261 130 -100%
2024 115 0.00003455 115 -100%

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