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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Glyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Glyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Glyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Glyn” 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
1912 8 0.000008097 8 -100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1916 15 0.000007754 15 -100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 -100%
1918 17 0.00000783 17 -100%
1919 24 0.000011373 24 -100%
1920 28 0.000012375 28 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 -100%
1922 21 0.000009174 21 -100%
1923 19 0.000008252 19 -100%
1924 30 0.000012597 30 -100%
1925 35 0.000015 6 29 -66%
1926 32 0.000013938 5 27 -69%
1927 21 0.000009054 21 -100%
1928 17 0.000007519 17 -100%
1929 26 0.00001186 26 -100%
1930 28 0.000012594 8 20 -43%
1931 36 0.000017107 36 -100%
1932 26 0.000012315 26 -100%
1933 39 0.000019505 8 31 -59%
1934 44 0.000021186 5 39 -77%
1935 28 0.000013398 28 -100%
1936 24 0.000011552 24 -100%
1937 28 0.000013141 9 19 -36%
1938 23 0.000010395 23 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 29 0.000012594 7 22 -52%
1941 31 0.000012724 31 -100%
1942 33 0.00001208 33 -100%
1943 25 0.000008857 25 -100%
1944 31 0.000011524 8 23 -48%
1945 28 0.000010554 28 -100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 -100%
1947 26 0.000007218 5 21 -62%
1948 26 0.000007531 26 -100%
1949 25 0.000007174 25 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 -100%
1951 24 0.000006515 24 -100%
1952 31 0.000008162 7 24 -55%
1953 35 0.000009082 35 -100%
1954 17 0.000004271 17 -100%
1955 26 0.000006476 5 21 -62%
1956 24 0.000005821 24 -100%
1957 29 0.000006901 5 24 -66%
1958 22 0.000005322 5 17 -55%
1959 21 0.000005051 21 -100%
1960 20 0.000004815 20 -100%
1961 27 0.000006518 9 18 -33%
1962 22 0.000005452 22 -100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 -100%
1964 21 0.000005402 21 -100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 -100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 -100%
1969 13 0.000003741 13 -100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 -100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 -100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 -100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 7 0.000002021 7 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 -100%

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