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How popular is “Gleason” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gleason” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gleason” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gleason” 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
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 18 0.000008291 18 -100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 -100%
1920 13 0.000005745 13 -100%
1921 15 0.000006425 15 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 -100%
1924 16 0.000006718 16 -100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 -100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 9 0.000002817 9 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 5 0.000001448 5 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 -100%

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