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How popular is “Gordie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gordie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gordie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gordie” 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
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 11 6 29%
1918 12 0.000005527 6 6 0%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 12 0.00000514 6 6 0%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 15 0.000006533 10 5 33%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 -100%
1956 6 0.000001455 6 -100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 -100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 -100%
1959 10 0.000002405 10 -100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 -100%
1961 11 0.000002656 11 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 -100%

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