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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gery” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gery” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gery” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gery” 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
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 22 0.000006372 22 -100%
1949 16 0.000004591 16 -100%
1950 29 0.000008278 29 -100%
1951 43 0.000011673 43 -100%
1952 49 0.000012902 49 -100%
1953 38 0.000009861 38 -100%
1954 32 0.000008039 32 -100%
1955 40 0.000009962 40 -100%
1956 53 0.000012855 53 -100%
1957 36 0.000008567 36 -100%
1958 24 0.000005806 24 -100%
1959 27 0.000006494 27 -100%
1960 31 0.000007463 31 -100%
1961 26 0.000006277 26 -100%
1962 19 0.000004708 19 -100%
1963 19 0.0000048 19 -100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 -100%
1965 17 0.000004689 17 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%

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