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How popular is “Germaine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Germaine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Germaine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Germaine” 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
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 100%
1902 12 0.000031029 12 100%
1903 18 0.000047219 18 100%
1904 27 0.000066917 27 100%
1905 20 0.000047178 20 100%
1906 30 0.00007002 30 100%
1907 22 0.000047272 22 100%
1908 48 0.00009823 48 100%
1909 31 0.000060639 31 100%
1910 45 0.000076179 45 100%
1911 53 0.000082263 53 100%
1912 85 0.000086027 85 100%
1913 106 0.000093219 106 100%
1914 121 0.000085431 121 100%
1915 137 0.000074764 137 100%
1916 138 0.000071339 138 100%
1917 120 0.000059798 120 100%
1918 106 0.000048823 106 100%
1919 117 0.000055444 117 100%
1920 145 0.000064084 145 100%
1921 155 0.000066395 155 100%
1922 171 0.0000747 171 100%
1923 151 0.000065581 151 100%
1924 164 0.000068861 164 100%
1925 164 0.000070287 164 100%
1926 138 0.000060107 138 100%
1927 171 0.000073727 171 100%
1928 203 0.000089786 203 100%
1929 182 0.000083023 182 100%
1930 147 0.000066118 147 100%
1931 139 0.000066052 139 100%
1932 152 0.000071994 152 100%
1933 161 0.000080522 161 100%
1934 149 0.000071744 149 100%
1935 141 0.000067467 141 100%
1936 106 0.000051021 106 100%
1937 124 0.000058198 124 100%
1938 119 0.000053784 119 100%
1939 116 0.000052645 116 100%
1940 84 0.000036479 84 100%
1941 83 0.000034066 83 100%
1942 83 0.000030383 83 100%
1943 96 0.000034012 96 100%
1944 79 0.000029367 79 100%
1945 73 0.000027517 73 100%
1946 68 0.000021281 68 100%
1947 93 0.000025817 93 100%
1948 79 0.000022882 79 100%
1949 71 0.000020374 71 100%
1950 75 0.000021408 75 100%
1951 76 0.000020631 76 100%
1952 69 0.000018167 69 100%
1953 77 0.000019981 77 100%
1954 88 0.000022107 88 100%
1955 74 0.000018431 74 100%
1956 79 0.000019161 79 100%
1957 108 0.000025701 108 100%
1958 119 0.000028786 119 100%
1959 117 0.000028139 117 100%
1960 116 0.000027926 116 100%
1961 127 0.000030659 127 100%
1962 107 0.000026516 107 100%
1963 125 0.00003158 125 100%
1964 99 0.000025466 99 100%
1965 80 0.000022066 80 100%
1966 67 0.000019277 67 100%
1967 84 0.000024743 77 7 83%
1968 57 0.000016872 57 100%
1969 84 0.00002417 84 100%
1970 100 0.000027728 71 29 42%
1971 190 0.000055356 95 95 0%
1972 250 0.000079542 93 157 -26%
1973 210 0.000069608 64 146 -39%
1974 163 0.000053618 50 113 -39%
1975 143 0.00004736 46 97 -36%
1976 129 0.000042514 38 91 -41%
1977 127 0.000039981 35 92 -45%
1978 105 0.000033083 29 76 -45%
1979 115 0.000034566 39 76 -32%
1980 124 0.000035999 31 93 -50%
1981 118 0.00003411 40 78 -32%
1982 106 0.000030217 29 77 -45%
1983 84 0.000024254 29 55 -31%
1984 91 0.000026084 23 68 -49%
1985 70 0.000019613 21 49 -40%
1986 45 0.000012651 10 35 -56%
1987 62 0.000017195 13 49 -58%
1988 49 0.000013261 21 28 -14%
1989 46 0.000011965 14 32 -39%
1990 66 0.000016698 22 44 -33%
1991 51 0.000013093 19 32 -25%
1992 42 0.000010934 12 30 -43%
1993 66 0.000017505 13 53 -61%
1994 46 0.000012373 9 37 -61%
1995 47 0.000012834 12 35 -49%
1996 38 0.000010419 9 29 -53%
1997 47 0.000012963 13 34 -45%
1998 46 0.000012506 11 35 -52%
1999 39 0.000010558 9 30 -54%
2000 38 0.000010053 9 29 -53%
2001 35 0.00000935 12 23 -31%
2002 43 0.000011503 6 37 -72%
2003 30 0.00000789 6 24 -60%
2004 36 0.000009422 5 31 -72%
2005 25 0.000006502 25 -100%
2006 26 0.000006572 5 21 -62%
2007 26 0.000006504 26 -100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 -100%
2009 26 0.000006806 26 -100%
2010 29 0.000007847 29 -100%
2011 30 0.000008202 7 23 -53%
2012 31 0.000008476 6 25 -61%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 6 0.000001635 6 -100%
2017 22 0.000006152 5 17 -55%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 5 5 0%
2023 15 0.00000453 5 10 -33%
2024 6 0.000001803 6 -100%

Explore other names

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