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How popular is “Gladys” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gladys” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gladys” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gladys” 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 20 0.000099263 20 100%
1881 40 0.000207589 40 100%
1882 46 0.000207644 46 100%
1883 71 0.00032727 71 100%
1884 92 0.000377884 92 100%
1885 91 0.000377822 91 100%
1886 131 0.00051309 131 100%
1887 201 0.000812476 201 100%
1888 314 0.001048505 314 100%
1889 414 0.001432794 414 100%
1890 525 0.001741866 525 100%
1891 633 0.002208091 633 100%
1892 867 0.002592905 867 100%
1893 1017 0.003127085 1017 100%
1894 1258 0.003714311 1258 100%
1895 1470 0.004187796 1464 6 99%
1896 1762 0.004928892 1757 5 99%
1897 1746 0.005032324 1737 9 99%
1898 2145 0.005623206 2136 9 99%
1899 2236 0.006591321 2228 8 99%
1900 2749 0.006105389 2733 16 99%
1901 2686 0.007767226 2676 10 99%
1902 2821 0.007294438 2809 12 99%
1903 2686 0.00704617 2674 12 99%
1904 2987 0.007403001 2976 11 99%
1905 3013 0.007107439 2996 17 99%
1906 3012 0.007029975 3000 12 99%
1907 3317 0.007127355 3303 14 99%
1908 3596 0.007359066 3580 16 99%
1909 3550 0.006944119 3538 12 99%
1910 3862 0.006537884 3842 20 99%
1911 3947 0.006126238 3933 14 99%
1912 4998 0.005058387 4980 18 99%
1913 5447 0.004790214 5428 19 99%
1914 6260 0.00441983 6227 33 99%
1915 7886 0.004303584 7857 29 99%
1916 8049 0.004160943 8019 30 99%
1917 8109 0.004040862 8075 34 99%
1918 8759 0.00403434 8734 25 99%
1919 8741 0.004142173 8717 24 99%
1920 8832 0.0039034 8819 13 100%
1921 8837 0.003785385 8814 23 99%
1922 8063 0.003522259 8042 21 99%
1923 7720 0.003352905 7695 25 99%
1924 7810 0.003279294 7790 20 99%
1925 7260 0.00311147 7231 29 99%
1926 6661 0.002901252 6634 27 99%
1927 6456 0.002783529 6418 38 99%
1928 5823 0.00257548 5791 32 99%
1929 5350 0.002440514 5327 23 99%
1930 5091 0.002289852 5066 25 99%
1931 4381 0.002081841 4351 30 99%
1932 4200 0.001989304 4184 16 99%
1933 3613 0.001807 3581 32 98%
1934 3638 0.00175172 3611 27 99%
1935 3163 0.001513469 3147 16 99%
1936 2958 0.001423773 2944 14 99%
1937 2890 0.001356381 2872 18 99%
1938 2606 0.001177814 2590 16 99%
1939 2437 0.001105997 2415 22 98%
1940 2257 0.00098016 2246 11 99%
1941 2238 0.000918559 2222 16 99%
1942 2198 0.000804592 2191 7 99%
1943 2113 0.000748611 2113 100%
1944 1908 0.000709273 1901 7 99%
1945 1708 0.000643821 1708 100%
1946 1720 0.000538289 1714 6 99%
1947 1820 0.00050523 1820 100%
1948 1609 0.000466037 1603 6 99%
1949 1554 0.00044594 1545 9 99%
1950 1526 0.000435582 1526 100%
1951 1456 0.000395251 1451 5 99%
1952 1309 0.000344655 1304 5 99%
1953 1369 0.000355248 1369 100%
1954 1273 0.000319792 1264 9 99%
1955 1232 0.000306843 1226 6 99%
1956 1179 0.000285954 1174 5 99%
1957 1068 0.000254156 1068 100%
1958 960 0.000232226 955 5 99%
1959 850 0.000204426 844 6 99%
1960 861 0.000207279 861 100%
1961 822 0.00019844 822 100%
1962 712 0.00017644 712 100%
1963 696 0.000175838 690 6 98%
1964 625 0.000160767 625 100%
1965 581 0.000160256 581 100%
1966 434 0.000124869 434 100%
1967 441 0.000129901 441 100%
1968 381 0.000112775 381 100%
1969 398 0.000114522 398 100%
1970 371 0.000102869 366 5 97%
1971 343 0.000099931 343 100%
1972 244 0.000077633 244 100%
1973 270 0.000089496 270 100%
1974 268 0.000088158 268 100%
1975 310 0.00010267 310 100%
1976 262 0.000086346 257 5 96%
1977 270 0.000084999 270 100%
1978 201 0.00006333 201 100%
1979 237 0.000071235 237 100%
1980 290 0.000084192 290 100%
1981 261 0.000075447 255 6 95%
1982 292 0.000083239 292 100%
1983 221 0.000063811 216 5 95%
1984 226 0.00006478 226 100%
1985 256 0.000071727 256 100%
1986 231 0.000064941 231 100%
1987 242 0.000067118 236 6 95%
1988 243 0.000065764 243 100%
1989 265 0.000068931 265 100%
1990 448 0.000113347 448 100%
1991 337 0.000086515 332 5 97%
1992 313 0.000081483 313 100%
1993 322 0.000085405 322 100%
1994 288 0.000077468 288 100%
1995 282 0.000077004 282 100%
1996 277 0.000075949 277 100%
1997 250 0.000068951 250 100%
1998 192 0.000052199 192 100%
1999 214 0.000057934 214 100%
2000 184 0.000048678 184 100%
2001 184 0.000049153 184 100%
2002 198 0.000052965 198 100%
2003 190 0.00004997 190 100%
2004 186 0.000048679 186 100%
2005 203 0.000052798 203 100%
2006 207 0.000052323 207 100%
2007 160 0.000040023 160 100%
2008 135 0.000034345 135 100%
2009 120 0.000031412 120 100%
2010 103 0.00002787 103 100%
2011 81 0.000022145 81 100%
2012 81 0.000022147 81 100%
2013 69 0.000018927 69 100%
2014 74 0.000019966 74 100%
2015 83 0.000022427 83 100%
2016 72 0.000019625 72 100%
2017 73 0.000020413 73 100%
2018 45 0.000012799 45 100%
2019 64 0.000018439 64 100%
2020 78 0.000023349 78 100%
2021 62 0.0000183 62 100%
2022 64 0.000018917 64 100%
2023 61 0.000018422 61 100%
2024 45 0.00001352 45 100%

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