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How popular is “Gillian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gillian” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gillian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gillian” 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
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 100%
1945 13 0.0000049 13 100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 100%
1947 22 0.000006107 22 100%
1948 19 0.000005503 19 100%
1949 23 0.0000066 23 100%
1950 18 0.000005138 18 100%
1951 19 0.000005158 19 100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 100%
1953 19 0.00000493 19 100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 100%
1955 29 0.000007223 29 100%
1956 26 0.000006306 26 100%
1957 31 0.000007377 31 100%
1958 25 0.000006048 25 100%
1959 35 0.000008418 35 100%
1960 19 0.000004574 19 100%
1961 51 0.000012312 51 100%
1962 65 0.000016108 65 100%
1963 61 0.000015411 61 100%
1964 70 0.000018006 70 100%
1965 82 0.000022618 82 100%
1966 83 0.00002388 83 100%
1967 84 0.000024743 84 100%
1968 116 0.000034336 116 100%
1969 127 0.000036543 127 100%
1970 125 0.00003466 125 100%
1971 121 0.000035253 121 100%
1972 128 0.000040725 128 100%
1973 139 0.000046074 139 100%
1974 110 0.000036184 110 100%
1975 100 0.000033119 100 100%
1976 95 0.000031309 95 100%
1977 162 0.000051 162 100%
1978 183 0.000057658 175 8 91%
1979 174 0.000052299 174 100%
1980 173 0.000050225 173 100%
1981 222 0.000064173 222 100%
1982 260 0.000074117 255 5 96%
1983 227 0.000065544 227 100%
1984 255 0.000073092 255 100%
1985 234 0.000065563 234 100%
1986 209 0.000058756 209 100%
1987 265 0.000073496 265 100%
1988 291 0.000078754 281 10 93%
1989 263 0.00006841 263 100%
1990 245 0.000061986 238 7 94%
1991 213 0.000054682 208 5 95%
1992 197 0.000051285 197 100%
1993 176 0.000046681 176 100%
1994 162 0.000043576 162 100%
1995 221 0.000060347 221 100%
1996 379 0.000103915 379 100%
1997 659 0.000181756 659 100%
1998 890 0.000241966 890 100%
1999 1030 0.000278841 1022 8 98%
2000 982 0.000259795 976 6 99%
2001 863 0.00023054 863 100%
2002 761 0.000203569 761 100%
2003 638 0.000167792 638 100%
2004 513 0.000134261 513 100%
2005 420 0.000109237 420 100%
2006 370 0.000093524 362 8 96%
2007 366 0.000091553 366 100%
2008 339 0.000086245 339 100%
2009 251 0.000065704 251 100%
2010 216 0.000058446 211 5 95%
2011 188 0.000051397 188 100%
2012 166 0.000045388 166 100%
2013 120 0.000032916 120 100%
2014 125 0.000033726 125 100%
2015 120 0.000032424 120 100%
2016 111 0.000030256 105 6 89%
2017 81 0.00002265 81 100%
2018 88 0.000025029 88 100%
2019 59 0.000016998 59 100%
2020 52 0.000015566 52 100%
2021 51 0.000015053 51 100%
2022 52 0.00001537 52 100%
2023 51 0.000015402 51 100%
2024 51 0.000015322 51 100%

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