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How popular is “Gillis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gillis” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gillis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gillis” 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
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 -100%
1916 18 0.000009305 18 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 12 0.000005527 12 -100%
1919 17 0.000008056 17 -100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 18 0.000007863 18 -100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 12 0.000005174 12 -100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 -100%
1929 10 0.000004562 10 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 14 0.000006653 14 -100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 -100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 15 0.000005491 15 -100%
1943 11 0.000003897 11 -100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 -100%
1945 17 0.000006408 17 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 -100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 20 0.000005429 20 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 13 0.000003373 13 -100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 14 0.000003396 14 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 -100%
1963 13 0.000003284 13 -100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%

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