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How popular is “Gerilyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gerilyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gerilyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gerilyn” 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
1942 15 0.000005491 15 100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 18 0.000004522 18 100%
1955 27 0.000006725 27 100%
1956 24 0.000005821 24 100%
1957 28 0.000006663 28 100%
1958 28 0.000006773 28 100%
1959 33 0.000007937 33 100%
1960 29 0.000006982 29 100%
1961 27 0.000006518 27 100%
1962 25 0.000006195 25 100%
1963 33 0.000008337 33 100%
1964 31 0.000007974 31 100%
1965 32 0.000008826 32 100%
1966 20 0.000005754 20 100%
1967 19 0.000005597 19 100%
1968 15 0.00000444 15 100%
1969 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1970 12 0.000003327 12 100%
1971 13 0.000003787 13 100%
1972 22 0.000007 22 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 10 0.000002851 10 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%

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