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How popular is “Gilda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gilda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gilda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gilda” 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
1898 6 0.000015729 6 100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 100%
1907 17 0.000036529 17 100%
1908 26 0.000053208 26 100%
1909 23 0.00004499 23 100%
1910 34 0.000057558 34 100%
1911 42 0.000065189 42 100%
1912 50 0.000050604 50 100%
1913 78 0.000068595 78 100%
1914 96 0.00006778 96 100%
1915 101 0.000055118 101 100%
1916 123 0.000063585 123 100%
1917 135 0.000067273 135 100%
1918 115 0.000052968 115 100%
1919 125 0.000059235 125 100%
1920 130 0.000057455 130 100%
1921 154 0.000065967 154 100%
1922 164 0.000071642 164 100%
1923 148 0.000064278 148 100%
1924 202 0.000084817 202 100%
1925 200 0.000085715 200 100%
1926 293 0.000127619 293 100%
1927 321 0.0001384 321 100%
1928 291 0.000128708 291 100%
1929 257 0.000117236 257 100%
1930 210 0.000094455 210 100%
1931 179 0.00008506 179 100%
1932 188 0.000089045 188 100%
1933 123 0.000061517 123 100%
1934 110 0.000052966 110 100%
1935 112 0.000053591 112 100%
1936 74 0.000035618 74 100%
1937 81 0.000038016 81 100%
1938 72 0.000032541 72 100%
1939 75 0.000034038 75 100%
1940 71 0.000030834 71 100%
1941 50 0.000020522 50 100%
1942 55 0.000020133 55 100%
1943 39 0.000013817 39 100%
1944 61 0.000022676 61 100%
1945 68 0.000025632 68 100%
1946 305 0.000095452 305 100%
1947 346 0.000096049 346 100%
1948 281 0.00008139 281 100%
1949 244 0.000070019 244 100%
1950 232 0.000066222 232 100%
1951 265 0.000071938 265 100%
1952 263 0.000069247 263 100%
1953 242 0.000062798 242 100%
1954 249 0.000062552 249 100%
1955 193 0.000048069 193 100%
1956 179 0.000043415 179 100%
1957 172 0.000040931 172 100%
1958 144 0.000034834 144 100%
1959 140 0.00003367 140 100%
1960 137 0.000032982 137 100%
1961 123 0.000029694 123 100%
1962 113 0.000028002 113 100%
1963 110 0.00002779 110 100%
1964 92 0.000023665 92 100%
1965 85 0.000023445 85 100%
1966 74 0.000021291 74 100%
1967 67 0.000019736 67 100%
1968 54 0.000015984 54 100%
1969 57 0.000016401 57 100%
1970 65 0.000018023 65 100%
1971 60 0.000017481 60 100%
1972 55 0.000017499 55 100%
1973 47 0.000015579 47 100%
1974 40 0.000013158 40 100%
1975 53 0.000017553 53 100%
1976 36 0.000011864 36 100%
1977 32 0.000010074 32 100%
1978 45 0.000014178 45 100%
1979 29 0.000008717 29 100%
1980 41 0.000011903 41 100%
1981 26 0.000007516 26 100%
1982 30 0.000008552 30 100%
1983 30 0.000008662 30 100%
1984 30 0.000008599 30 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 25 100%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 100%
1987 22 0.000006102 22 100%
1988 23 0.000006225 23 100%
1989 14 0.000003642 14 100%
1990 31 0.000007843 31 100%
1991 28 0.000007188 28 100%
1992 16 0.000004165 16 100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 100%
1996 65 0.000017822 65 100%
1997 28 0.000007723 28 100%
1998 21 0.000005709 21 100%
1999 20 0.000005414 20 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 100%
2002 12 0.00000321 12 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2004 11 0.000002879 11 100%
2005 15 0.000003901 15 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 100%
2022 9 0.00000266 9 100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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