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How popular is “Gerry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gerry” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gerry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gerry” 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
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1910 7 0.00001185 7 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 20 0.000014121 14 6 40%
1915 24 0.000013097 14 10 17%
1916 33 0.000017059 24 9 45%
1917 38 0.000018936 25 13 32%
1918 52 0.000023951 30 22 15%
1919 59 0.000027959 42 17 42%
1920 53 0.000023424 43 10 62%
1921 84 0.000035982 66 18 57%
1922 85 0.000037132 64 21 51%
1923 76 0.000033008 68 8 79%
1924 100 0.000041988 80 20 60%
1925 91 0.000039001 71 20 56%
1926 141 0.000061414 101 40 43%
1927 116 0.000050014 85 31 47%
1928 157 0.00006944 115 42 46%
1929 149 0.000067969 107 42 44%
1930 193 0.000086808 130 63 35%
1931 205 0.000097415 139 66 36%
1932 226 0.000107044 152 74 35%
1933 198 0.000099027 118 80 19%
1934 230 0.000110746 126 104 10%
1935 256 0.000122494 140 116 9%
1936 274 0.000131884 140 134 2%
1937 316 0.00014831 149 167 -6%
1938 345 0.000155927 175 170 1%
1939 369 0.000167465 200 169 8%
1940 402 0.000174579 186 216 -7%
1941 422 0.000173205 187 235 -11%
1942 573 0.00020975 243 330 -15%
1943 523 0.000185293 250 273 -4%
1944 467 0.000173601 182 285 -22%
1945 474 0.000178672 198 276 -16%
1946 535 0.000167433 199 336 -26%
1947 608 0.00016878 233 375 -23%
1948 547 0.000158435 212 335 -22%
1949 486 0.000139464 184 302 -24%
1950 445 0.000127021 154 291 -31%
1951 414 0.000112386 155 259 -25%
1952 446 0.00011743 134 312 -40%
1953 453 0.000117551 118 335 -48%
1954 450 0.000113045 114 336 -49%
1955 503 0.000125278 110 393 -56%
1956 555 0.00013461 102 453 -63%
1957 636 0.000151351 123 513 -61%
1958 635 0.000153608 111 524 -65%
1959 612 0.000147186 128 484 -58%
1960 525 0.00012639 99 426 -62%
1961 449 0.000108394 74 375 -67%
1962 385 0.000095406 58 327 -70%
1963 342 0.000086403 51 291 -70%
1964 373 0.000095946 76 297 -59%
1965 340 0.000093781 46 294 -73%
1966 296 0.000085164 38 258 -74%
1967 280 0.000082477 47 233 -66%
1968 248 0.000073407 39 209 -69%
1969 270 0.000077691 37 233 -73%
1970 233 0.000064605 39 194 -67%
1971 232 0.000067592 34 198 -71%
1972 188 0.000059816 27 161 -71%
1973 155 0.000051377 30 125 -61%
1974 141 0.000046382 21 120 -70%
1975 129 0.000042724 15 114 -77%
1976 119 0.000039218 14 105 -76%
1977 118 0.000037148 14 104 -76%
1978 129 0.000040644 15 114 -77%
1979 117 0.000035167 12 105 -79%
1980 106 0.000030774 11 95 -79%
1981 104 0.000030063 13 91 -75%
1982 107 0.000030502 107 -100%
1983 89 0.000025698 10 79 -78%
1984 80 0.000022931 7 73 -82%
1985 81 0.000022695 5 76 -88%
1986 79 0.000022209 11 68 -72%
1987 68 0.000018859 68 -100%
1988 80 0.000021651 5 75 -88%
1989 73 0.000018988 73 -100%
1990 80 0.00002024 7 73 -82%
1991 68 0.000017457 9 59 -74%
1992 82 0.000021347 10 72 -76%
1993 70 0.000018566 6 64 -83%
1994 56 0.000015063 7 49 -75%
1995 49 0.00001338 5 44 -80%
1996 58 0.000015903 58 -100%
1997 37 0.000010205 37 -100%
1998 51 0.000013865 51 -100%
1999 35 0.000009475 35 -100%
2000 26 0.000006878 26 -100%
2001 38 0.000010151 38 -100%
2002 34 0.000009095 34 -100%
2003 36 0.000009468 36 -100%
2004 25 0.000006543 25 -100%
2005 34 0.000008843 34 -100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 -100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 -100%
2008 24 0.000006106 24 -100%
2009 31 0.000008115 31 -100%
2010 12 0.000003247 12 -100%
2011 16 0.000004374 16 -100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 -100%
2014 16 0.000004317 16 -100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 -100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 -100%
2019 16 0.00000461 16 -100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 -100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 -100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 -100%

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