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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Gotham” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gotham” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gotham” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gotham” 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
2015 48 0.00001297 48 -100%
2016 50 0.000013629 50 -100%
2017 37 0.000010346 37 -100%
2018 27 0.000007679 27 -100%
2019 22 0.000006338 22 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 -100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 -100%

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