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How popular is “Gorden” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gorden” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gorden” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gorden” 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
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 -100%
1910 10 0.000016929 10 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 16 0.000016193 16 -100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 25 0.000017651 25 -100%
1915 42 0.00002292 42 -100%
1916 37 0.000019127 37 -100%
1917 39 0.000019434 39 -100%
1918 44 0.000020266 44 -100%
1919 39 0.000018481 39 -100%
1920 53 0.000023424 53 -100%
1921 35 0.000014992 35 -100%
1922 82 0.000035821 82 -100%
1923 47 0.000020413 47 -100%
1924 49 0.000020574 49 -100%
1925 45 0.000019286 45 -100%
1926 54 0.00002352 54 -100%
1927 46 0.000019833 46 -100%
1928 46 0.000020346 46 -100%
1929 52 0.000023721 52 -100%
1930 41 0.000018441 41 -100%
1931 46 0.000021859 46 -100%
1932 42 0.000019893 42 -100%
1933 40 0.000020006 40 -100%
1934 38 0.000018297 38 -100%
1935 56 0.000026796 56 -100%
1936 54 0.000025992 54 -100%
1937 27 0.000012672 27 -100%
1938 43 0.000019434 43 -100%
1939 36 0.000016338 36 -100%
1940 36 0.000015634 36 -100%
1941 24 0.00000985 24 -100%
1942 37 0.000013544 37 -100%
1943 38 0.000013463 38 -100%
1944 20 0.000007435 20 -100%
1945 23 0.00000867 23 -100%
1946 27 0.00000845 27 -100%
1947 32 0.000008883 32 -100%
1948 23 0.000006662 23 -100%
1949 24 0.000006887 24 -100%
1950 19 0.000005423 19 -100%
1951 22 0.000005972 22 -100%
1952 21 0.000005529 21 -100%
1953 21 0.000005449 21 -100%
1954 25 0.00000628 25 -100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 -100%
1956 35 0.000008489 35 -100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 -100%
1958 24 0.000005806 24 -100%
1959 20 0.00000481 20 -100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 -100%
1961 20 0.000004828 20 -100%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 -100%
1963 10 0.000002526 10 -100%
1964 17 0.000004373 17 -100%
1965 20 0.000005517 20 -100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 -100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 7 0.000002204 7 -100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 -100%
2019 5 0.000001441 5 -100%

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