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How popular is “Gordy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gordy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gordy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gordy” 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
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 -100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 -100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 -100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 -100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 14 0.000003487 14 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 25 0.000005949 25 -100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 -100%
1959 27 0.000006494 27 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 -100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 -100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 -100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 -100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 -100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%

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