Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Glinda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Glinda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Glinda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Glinda” 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
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1935 10 0.000004785 10 100%
1936 11 0.000005295 11 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 12 0.000005424 12 100%
1939 19 0.000008623 19 100%
1940 18 0.000007817 18 100%
1941 36 0.000014776 36 100%
1942 44 0.000016106 44 100%
1943 58 0.000020549 58 100%
1944 67 0.000024906 67 100%
1945 62 0.000023371 62 100%
1946 73 0.000022846 73 100%
1947 113 0.000031369 113 100%
1948 113 0.00003273 113 100%
1949 115 0.000033001 115 100%
1950 124 0.000035395 124 100%
1951 142 0.000038548 142 100%
1952 126 0.000033175 126 100%
1953 119 0.00003088 119 100%
1954 105 0.000026377 105 100%
1955 128 0.00003188 128 100%
1956 90 0.000021829 90 100%
1957 84 0.00001999 84 100%
1958 91 0.000022013 91 100%
1959 83 0.000019962 83 100%
1960 61 0.000014685 61 100%
1961 80 0.000019313 80 100%
1962 48 0.000011895 48 100%
1963 57 0.0000144 57 100%
1964 35 0.000009003 35 100%
1965 41 0.000011309 41 100%
1966 41 0.000011796 41 100%
1967 31 0.000009131 31 100%
1968 35 0.00001036 35 100%
1969 31 0.00000892 31 100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 100%
1971 22 0.00000641 22 100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 100%
1973 20 0.000006629 20 100%
1974 14 0.000004605 14 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 10 0.000003151 10 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%

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