Name Trends

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How popular is “Gill” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gill” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gill” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gill” 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
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 15 0.000006157 15 -100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 -100%
1943 21 0.00000744 21 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 -100%
1946 18 0.000005633 18 -100%
1947 30 0.000008328 30 -100%
1948 37 0.000010717 6 31 -68%
1949 31 0.000008896 5 26 -68%
1950 40 0.000011418 40 -100%
1951 42 0.000011401 42 -100%
1952 34 0.000008952 34 -100%
1953 38 0.000009861 5 33 -74%
1954 34 0.000008541 34 -100%
1955 43 0.00001071 6 37 -72%
1956 52 0.000012612 8 44 -69%
1957 37 0.000008805 5 32 -73%
1958 41 0.000009918 41 -100%
1959 41 0.000009861 41 -100%
1960 24 0.000005778 24 -100%
1961 28 0.00000676 28 -100%
1962 34 0.000008425 6 28 -65%
1963 27 0.000006821 27 -100%
1964 34 0.000008746 10 24 -41%
1965 21 0.000005792 21 -100%
1966 19 0.000005467 5 14 -47%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 -100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 -100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 13 0.000003787 13 -100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 -100%
1973 13 0.000004309 13 -100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 -100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 11 0.000003082 11 -100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 9 0.000002277 9 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 10 0.000002652 10 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 -100%
1996 12 0.00000329 12 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 -100%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 -100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 -100%

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