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How popular is “Glee” in the USA?

Number of people named “Glee” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Glee” by birth year

This chart shows how “Glee” 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
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 100%
1911 6 0.000009313 6 100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 100%
1913 20 0.000017588 15 5 50%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 100%
1916 18 0.000009305 13 5 44%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 26 0.000011975 21 5 62%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 100%
1921 20 0.000008567 20 100%
1922 13 0.000005679 8 5 23%
1923 14 0.00000608 14 100%
1924 17 0.000007138 17 100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 100%
1929 20 0.000009123 20 100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 100%
1932 10 0.000004736 10 100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 100%
1936 15 0.00000722 15 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 100%
1939 13 0.0000059 13 100%
1940 17 0.000007383 17 100%
1941 19 0.000007798 19 100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 100%
1946 19 0.000005946 19 100%
1947 23 0.000006385 23 100%
1948 12 0.000003476 12 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 18 0.000005138 18 100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1961 18 0.000004345 18 100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%

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