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How popular is “Gertrude” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gertrude” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gertrude” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gertrude” 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
1880 787 0.003906017 787 100%
1881 791 0.004105082 791 100%
1882 939 0.004238646 939 100%
1883 923 0.004254515 923 100%
1884 1068 0.004386739 1063 5 99%
1885 1094 0.004542171 1086 8 99%
1886 1256 0.004919394 1249 7 99%
1887 1251 0.005056752 1251 100%
1888 1473 0.004918624 1468 5 99%
1889 1550 0.005364324 1543 7 99%
1890 1722 0.005713319 1713 9 99%
1891 1656 0.005776617 1645 11 99%
1892 1931 0.005774971 1924 7 99%
1893 1811 0.005568487 1811 100%
1894 1918 0.005662996 1908 10 99%
1895 2141 0.006099368 2129 12 99%
1896 2227 0.006229649 2221 6 99%
1897 2141 0.006170793 2135 6 99%
1898 2316 0.006071489 2302 14 99%
1899 2117 0.00624053 2110 7 99%
1900 2588 0.005747816 2580 8 99%
1901 1969 0.005693845 1964 5 99%
1902 2217 0.005732637 2207 10 99%
1903 2258 0.0059234 2253 5 100%
1904 2275 0.005638376 2269 6 99%
1905 2286 0.005392502 2276 10 99%
1906 2384 0.00556423 2375 9 99%
1907 2509 0.005391177 2499 10 99%
1908 2575 0.005269631 2562 13 99%
1909 2622 0.005128867 2622 100%
1910 2940 0.004977053 2932 8 99%
1911 2908 0.004513579 2895 13 99%
1912 3901 0.003948133 3887 14 99%
1913 4028 0.003542313 4015 13 99%
1914 4949 0.003494208 4938 11 100%
1915 6092 0.003324555 6077 15 100%
1916 6259 0.0032356 6243 16 99%
1917 6315 0.003146879 6300 15 100%
1918 6278 0.002891607 6264 14 100%
1919 6030 0.002857488 6014 16 99%
1920 5814 0.002569561 5797 17 99%
1921 5357 0.002294705 5349 8 100%
1922 5095 0.002225711 5082 13 99%
1923 4709 0.002045185 4700 9 100%
1924 4560 0.001914671 4543 17 99%
1925 3903 0.001672737 3892 11 99%
1926 3864 0.001682997 3852 12 99%
1927 3525 0.001519817 3508 17 99%
1928 3023 0.001337056 3011 12 99%
1929 2739 0.001249452 2725 14 99%
1930 2568 0.001155046 2555 13 99%
1931 2107 0.001001241 2094 13 99%
1932 1981 0.000938288 1968 13 99%
1933 1626 0.000813225 1619 7 99%
1934 1588 0.000764632 1582 6 99%
1935 1439 0.00068855 1425 14 98%
1936 1325 0.000637762 1316 9 99%
1937 1327 0.000622809 1319 8 99%
1938 1179 0.000532864 1167 12 98%
1939 1098 0.000498311 1092 6 99%
1940 1014 0.000440356 1014 100%
1941 997 0.000409206 997 100%
1942 932 0.000341165 932 100%
1943 874 0.000309648 867 7 98%
1944 813 0.000302222 813 100%
1945 664 0.000250291 664 100%
1946 639 0.000199981 639 100%
1947 702 0.000194874 702 100%
1948 651 0.000188558 651 100%
1949 662 0.000189969 657 5 98%
1950 613 0.000174975 613 100%
1951 558 0.000151477 558 100%
1952 476 0.000125329 476 100%
1953 422 0.000109507 422 100%
1954 393 0.000098726 393 100%
1955 371 0.000092402 371 100%
1956 340 0.000082463 340 100%
1957 300 0.000071392 300 100%
1958 243 0.000058782 243 100%
1959 220 0.00005291 220 100%
1960 211 0.000050797 211 100%
1961 173 0.000041764 173 100%
1962 152 0.000037667 152 100%
1963 169 0.000042696 169 100%
1964 153 0.000039356 153 100%
1965 112 0.000030893 112 100%
1966 98 0.000028196 98 100%
1967 71 0.000020914 71 100%
1968 58 0.000017168 58 100%
1969 53 0.00001525 53 100%
1970 54 0.000014973 54 100%
1971 55 0.000016024 55 100%
1972 55 0.000017499 55 100%
1973 55 0.000018231 55 100%
1974 39 0.000012829 39 100%
1975 43 0.000014241 43 100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 100%
1977 20 0.000006296 20 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 100%
1980 28 0.000008129 28 100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 100%
1982 24 0.000006842 24 100%
1983 21 0.000006064 21 100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 22 0.000005954 22 100%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 8 0.000002122 8 100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 9 0.000002458 9 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 100%
1997 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
1999 13 0.000003519 13 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 100%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 18 0.000004937 18 100%
2014 20 0.000005396 20 100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 100%
2016 36 0.000009813 36 100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 100%
2018 25 0.000007111 25 100%
2019 34 0.000009796 34 100%
2020 32 0.000009579 32 100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 100%
2023 31 0.000009362 31 100%
2024 29 0.000008713 29 100%

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