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How popular is “Gilbert” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gilbert” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gilbert” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gilbert” 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 101 0.00050128 101 -100%
1881 92 0.000477456 92 -100%
1882 88 0.000397232 88 -100%
1883 92 0.000424069 92 -100%
1884 100 0.000410743 100 -100%
1885 77 0.000319696 77 -100%
1886 91 0.000356421 91 -100%
1887 102 0.000412301 102 -100%
1888 109 0.000363971 109 -100%
1889 105 0.00036339 105 -100%
1890 116 0.000384869 116 -100%
1891 86 0.000299993 86 -100%
1892 120 0.00035888 120 -100%
1893 122 0.000375127 122 -100%
1894 139 0.000410405 139 -100%
1895 132 0.000376047 132 -100%
1896 129 0.000360855 129 -100%
1897 121 0.000348746 121 -100%
1898 143 0.00037488 143 -100%
1899 107 0.000315416 107 -100%
1900 145 0.000322038 145 -100%
1901 129 0.000373035 129 -100%
1902 166 0.000429237 166 -100%
1903 138 0.000362015 138 -100%
1904 195 0.000483289 7 188 -93%
1905 183 0.000431683 183 -100%
1906 199 0.000464464 199 -100%
1907 212 0.000455532 212 -100%
1908 223 0.00045636 223 -100%
1909 239 0.000467505 239 -100%
1910 274 0.000463848 274 -100%
1911 375 0.000582047 6 369 -97%
1912 655 0.000662914 6 649 -98%
1913 874 0.000768615 6 868 -99%
1914 1065 0.000751936 5 1060 -99%
1915 1463 0.000798395 11 1452 -98%
1916 1452 0.000750614 11 1441 -98%
1917 1521 0.000757942 11 1510 -99%
1918 1590 0.000732344 14 1576 -98%
1919 1598 0.000757258 6 1592 -99%
1920 1772 0.000783155 9 1763 -99%
1921 1712 0.000733346 8 1704 -99%
1922 1756 0.000767095 8 1748 -99%
1923 1718 0.000746152 14 1704 -98%
1924 1807 0.00075873 10 1797 -99%
1925 1666 0.00071401 10 1656 -99%
1926 1793 0.000780956 12 1781 -99%
1927 1991 0.000858427 15 1976 -98%
1928 2060 0.000911126 12 2048 -99%
1929 2063 0.000941081 7 2056 -99%
1930 2138 0.000961639 19 2119 -98%
1931 2005 0.000952771 12 1993 -99%
1932 1988 0.000941604 14 1974 -99%
1933 1714 0.000857237 10 1704 -99%
1934 1788 0.000860933 13 1775 -99%
1935 1694 0.000810565 11 1683 -99%
1936 1674 0.000805746 9 1665 -99%
1937 1684 0.000790362 1684 -100%
1938 1610 0.000727659 14 1596 -98%
1939 1559 0.000707529 6 1553 -99%
1940 1537 0.000667482 6 1531 -99%
1941 1704 0.000699385 1704 -100%
1942 1732 0.00063401 9 1723 -99%
1943 1829 0.000647994 13 1816 -99%
1944 1659 0.000616711 10 1649 -99%
1945 1634 0.000615927 9 1625 -99%
1946 1751 0.000547991 1751 -100%
1947 1881 0.000522163 5 1876 -99%
1948 1880 0.00054453 12 1868 -99%
1949 1820 0.000522272 10 1810 -99%
1950 1888 0.000538911 7 1881 -99%
1951 1917 0.000520395 1917 -100%
1952 1855 0.000488414 8 1847 -99%
1953 1923 0.000499008 10 1913 -99%
1954 1960 0.000492375 5 1955 -99%
1955 1869 0.000465495 6 1863 -99%
1956 1966 0.000476833 10 1956 -99%
1957 1971 0.000469046 12 1959 -99%
1958 1822 0.000440746 8 1814 -99%
1959 1758 0.0004228 13 1745 -99%
1960 1799 0.000433096 12 1787 -99%
1961 1716 0.000414262 7 1709 -99%
1962 1638 0.000405911 11 1627 -99%
1963 1641 0.000414582 11 1630 -99%
1964 1522 0.000391501 6 1516 -99%
1965 1354 0.000373471 7 1347 -99%
1966 1279 0.000367988 10 1269 -98%
1967 1278 0.000376447 11 1267 -98%
1968 1176 0.000348092 9 1167 -98%
1969 1114 0.000320546 6 1108 -99%
1970 1176 0.000326077 6 1170 -99%
1971 1070 0.000311739 7 1063 -99%
1972 966 0.00030735 5 961 -99%
1973 928 0.000307602 10 918 -98%
1974 896 0.000294737 10 886 -98%
1975 886 0.000293436 6 880 -99%
1976 836 0.000275517 10 826 -98%
1977 792 0.000249331 5 787 -99%
1978 805 0.000253634 8 797 -98%
1979 788 0.00023685 10 778 -97%
1980 841 0.000244157 9 832 -98%
1981 830 0.000239928 7 823 -98%
1982 803 0.000228908 10 793 -98%
1983 757 0.000218575 757 -100%
1984 784 0.000224722 8 776 -98%
1985 699 0.000195847 12 687 -97%
1986 781 0.000219562 781 -100%
1987 738 0.000204681 738 -100%
1988 710 0.000192149 710 -100%
1989 677 0.000176098 677 -100%
1990 730 0.000184694 5 725 -99%
1991 691 0.000177395 6 685 -98%
1992 611 0.000159062 611 -100%
1993 639 0.000169483 639 -100%
1994 505 0.000135838 505 -100%
1995 502 0.000137078 502 -100%
1996 467 0.000128044 467 -100%
1997 448 0.000123561 448 -100%
1998 420 0.000114186 420 -100%
1999 419 0.000113431 419 -100%
2000 419 0.000110849 419 -100%
2001 408 0.000108992 408 -100%
2002 351 0.000093893 351 -100%
2003 361 0.000094942 361 -100%
2004 409 0.000107042 409 -100%
2005 378 0.000098313 378 -100%
2006 347 0.000087711 347 -100%
2007 347 0.0000868 347 -100%
2008 316 0.000080394 316 -100%
2009 278 0.000072772 278 -100%
2010 258 0.00006981 258 -100%
2011 242 0.00006616 242 -100%
2012 201 0.000054958 201 -100%
2013 234 0.000064186 234 -100%
2014 241 0.000065023 241 -100%
2015 210 0.000056743 210 -100%
2016 215 0.000058604 215 -100%
2017 196 0.000054807 196 -100%
2018 166 0.000047214 166 -100%
2019 175 0.000050419 175 -100%
2020 164 0.000049093 164 -100%
2021 159 0.000046931 159 -100%
2022 160 0.000047293 160 -100%
2023 175 0.000052851 175 -100%
2024 134 0.000040258 134 -100%

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