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How popular is “Glenda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Glenda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Glenda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Glenda” 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%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 10 0.000021487 10 100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 100%
1909 15 0.000029341 15 100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 100%
1911 26 0.000040355 26 100%
1912 39 0.000039471 39 100%
1913 48 0.000042212 48 100%
1914 52 0.000036714 52 100%
1915 68 0.000037109 68 100%
1916 64 0.000033085 64 100%
1917 81 0.000040364 81 100%
1918 87 0.000040072 87 100%
1919 78 0.000036963 78 100%
1920 110 0.000048616 110 100%
1921 117 0.000050118 117 100%
1922 117 0.000051111 117 100%
1923 123 0.000053421 123 100%
1924 150 0.000062983 150 100%
1925 143 0.000061287 143 100%
1926 167 0.000072738 167 100%
1927 162 0.000069847 162 100%
1928 184 0.000081382 184 100%
1929 184 0.000083935 184 100%
1930 181 0.000081411 181 100%
1931 230 0.000109295 230 100%
1932 288 0.000136409 288 100%
1933 680 0.000340094 680 100%
1934 921 0.000443467 921 100%
1935 1151 0.000550744 1144 7 99%
1936 1366 0.000657496 1366 100%
1937 1550 0.000727471 1536 14 98%
1938 1969 0.000889914 1958 11 99%
1939 2294 0.001041098 2286 8 99%
1940 2362 0.001025759 2353 9 99%
1941 2654 0.001089301 2643 11 99%
1942 3106 0.001136972 3089 17 99%
1943 3422 0.001212375 3403 19 99%
1944 3377 0.001255353 3367 10 99%
1945 2973 0.001120656 2963 10 99%
1946 3576 0.001119141 3568 8 100%
1947 4163 0.001155643 4156 7 100%
1948 3845 0.00111368 3831 14 99%
1949 3987 0.001144119 3975 12 99%
1950 4224 0.0012057 4215 9 100%
1951 4142 0.001124401 4135 7 100%
1952 3890 0.001024222 3880 10 99%
1953 3661 0.00095001 3655 6 100%
1954 3743 0.000940285 3735 8 100%
1955 3354 0.000835351 3343 11 99%
1956 3253 0.000788982 3245 8 100%
1957 3208 0.00076342 3200 8 100%
1958 2994 0.000724255 2982 12 99%
1959 2845 0.000684224 2838 7 100%
1960 2699 0.000649764 2689 10 99%
1961 2610 0.000630085 2600 10 99%
1962 2463 0.000610353 2456 7 99%
1963 2060 0.000520439 2052 8 99%
1964 1868 0.000480502 1862 6 99%
1965 1519 0.000418983 1514 5 99%
1966 1373 0.000395033 1367 6 99%
1967 1110 0.000326961 1110 100%
1968 998 0.000295405 998 100%
1969 943 0.000271342 943 100%
1970 893 0.000247608 893 100%
1971 782 0.000227832 782 100%
1972 613 0.000195037 613 100%
1973 566 0.000187611 566 100%
1974 509 0.000167434 509 100%
1975 444 0.000147049 444 100%
1976 455 0.000149952 455 100%
1977 403 0.000126869 403 100%
1978 362 0.000114056 362 100%
1979 297 0.00008927 297 100%
1980 327 0.000094934 327 100%
1981 310 0.000089612 310 100%
1982 323 0.000092076 323 100%
1983 285 0.000082291 285 100%
1984 231 0.000066213 231 100%
1985 213 0.000059679 213 100%
1986 198 0.000055664 198 100%
1987 183 0.000050754 183 100%
1988 172 0.000046549 172 100%
1989 205 0.000053324 205 100%
1990 175 0.000044276 175 100%
1991 165 0.000042359 165 100%
1992 179 0.000046599 179 100%
1993 143 0.000037928 143 100%
1994 137 0.000036851 137 100%
1995 135 0.000036864 135 100%
1996 124 0.000033999 124 100%
1997 118 0.000032545 118 100%
1998 112 0.00003045 112 100%
1999 86 0.000023282 86 100%
2000 96 0.000025397 96 100%
2001 86 0.000022974 86 100%
2002 95 0.000025413 95 100%
2003 90 0.00002367 90 100%
2004 66 0.000017273 66 100%
2005 89 0.000023148 89 100%
2006 72 0.000018199 72 100%
2007 75 0.000018761 75 100%
2008 61 0.000015519 61 100%
2009 57 0.000014921 57 100%
2010 46 0.000012447 46 100%
2011 48 0.000013123 48 100%
2012 39 0.000010663 39 100%
2013 32 0.000008778 32 100%
2014 30 0.000008094 30 100%
2015 27 0.000007295 27 100%
2016 33 0.000008995 33 100%
2017 24 0.000006711 24 100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 100%
2019 22 0.000006338 22 100%
2020 24 0.000007184 24 100%
2021 27 0.000007969 27 100%
2022 18 0.000005321 18 100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 100%

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