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How popular is “Gerldine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gerldine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gerldine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gerldine” 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 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 100%
1920 9 0.000003978 9 100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 100%
1923 13 0.000005646 13 100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 100%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 100%
1936 19 0.000009145 19 100%
1937 17 0.000007979 17 100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%

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