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How popular is “Gretchen” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gretchen” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gretchen” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gretchen” 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
1882 10 0.00004514 10 100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 100%
1887 16 0.000064675 16 100%
1888 18 0.000060105 18 100%
1889 22 0.000076139 22 100%
1890 29 0.000096217 29 100%
1891 34 0.000118602 34 100%
1892 24 0.000071776 24 100%
1893 32 0.000098394 32 100%
1894 24 0.000070861 24 100%
1895 35 0.000099709 35 100%
1896 40 0.000111893 40 100%
1897 26 0.000074937 26 100%
1898 39 0.00010224 39 100%
1899 37 0.000109069 37 100%
1900 55 0.000122152 55 100%
1901 41 0.000118562 41 100%
1902 30 0.000077573 30 100%
1903 39 0.000102308 39 100%
1904 44 0.00010905 44 100%
1905 42 0.000099075 42 100%
1906 55 0.000128369 55 100%
1907 47 0.000100991 47 100%
1908 60 0.000122788 60 100%
1909 66 0.000129102 66 100%
1910 95 0.000160823 95 100%
1911 80 0.00012417 80 100%
1912 134 0.000135619 134 100%
1913 158 0.000138949 158 100%
1914 196 0.000138384 196 100%
1915 288 0.000157169 288 100%
1916 296 0.000153018 296 100%
1917 246 0.000122586 246 100%
1918 176 0.000081064 176 100%
1919 128 0.000060656 128 100%
1920 131 0.000057897 131 100%
1921 144 0.000061683 144 100%
1922 149 0.000065089 149 100%
1923 149 0.000064713 149 100%
1924 123 0.000051646 123 100%
1925 144 0.000061715 144 100%
1926 143 0.000062285 143 100%
1927 142 0.000061224 142 100%
1928 177 0.000078286 177 100%
1929 152 0.000069338 152 100%
1930 178 0.000080062 178 100%
1931 198 0.000094089 198 100%
1932 233 0.000110359 233 100%
1933 240 0.000120033 240 100%
1934 288 0.000138674 288 100%
1935 301 0.000144026 301 100%
1936 303 0.000145843 303 100%
1937 350 0.000164268 350 100%
1938 483 0.000218298 483 100%
1939 420 0.000190611 420 100%
1940 471 0.000204544 471 100%
1941 441 0.000181003 441 100%
1942 464 0.00016985 464 100%
1943 448 0.000158721 448 100%
1944 490 0.000182151 490 100%
1945 493 0.000185834 493 100%
1946 567 0.000177448 567 100%
1947 570 0.000158231 570 100%
1948 640 0.000185372 640 100%
1949 608 0.000174473 608 100%
1950 545 0.000155565 545 100%
1951 618 0.000167764 618 100%
1952 583 0.000153502 583 100%
1953 578 0.000149988 578 100%
1954 563 0.000141432 563 100%
1955 575 0.00014321 575 100%
1956 567 0.00013752 567 100%
1957 570 0.000135645 565 5 98%
1958 687 0.000166187 687 100%
1959 818 0.00019673 813 5 99%
1960 936 0.000225335 936 100%
1961 1044 0.000252034 1044 100%
1962 1002 0.000248304 1002 100%
1963 962 0.00024304 962 100%
1964 974 0.00025054 974 100%
1965 906 0.0002499 906 100%
1966 961 0.000276495 961 100%
1967 967 0.000284839 967 100%
1968 887 0.000262549 887 100%
1969 1106 0.000318244 1106 100%
1970 1250 0.000346595 1245 5 99%
1971 1347 0.000392442 1347 100%
1972 1262 0.000401528 1262 100%
1973 1350 0.000447481 1350 100%
1974 1286 0.000423026 1278 8 99%
1975 1184 0.000392132 1175 9 98%
1976 1223 0.000403058 1223 100%
1977 1045 0.000328979 1045 100%
1978 947 0.000298374 947 100%
1979 930 0.000279531 930 100%
1980 923 0.000267963 917 6 99%
1981 895 0.000258717 895 100%
1982 747 0.000212944 747 100%
1983 596 0.000172088 596 100%
1984 524 0.000150197 524 100%
1985 451 0.000126362 451 100%
1986 405 0.000113857 405 100%
1987 359 0.000099567 359 100%
1988 344 0.000093098 344 100%
1989 430 0.00011185 430 100%
1990 357 0.000090323 357 100%
1991 377 0.000096784 377 100%
1992 317 0.000082525 317 100%
1993 320 0.000084874 320 100%
1994 281 0.000075585 281 100%
1995 283 0.000077277 283 100%
1996 290 0.000079513 290 100%
1997 283 0.000078053 283 100%
1998 290 0.000078843 290 100%
1999 301 0.000081486 301 100%
2000 310 0.000082013 310 100%
2001 313 0.000083614 313 100%
2002 285 0.000076238 285 100%
2003 316 0.000083107 316 100%
2004 275 0.000071972 275 100%
2005 349 0.000090771 349 100%
2006 355 0.000089733 355 100%
2007 316 0.000079046 316 100%
2008 283 0.000071998 283 100%
2009 265 0.000069369 265 100%
2010 226 0.000061152 226 100%
2011 234 0.000063973 234 100%
2012 203 0.000055504 203 100%
2013 203 0.000055683 203 100%
2014 191 0.000051533 191 100%
2015 162 0.000043773 162 100%
2016 170 0.000046338 170 100%
2017 120 0.000033555 120 100%
2018 96 0.000027305 96 100%
2019 71 0.000020456 71 100%
2020 65 0.000019458 65 100%
2021 61 0.000018005 61 100%
2022 52 0.00001537 52 100%
2023 65 0.00001963 65 100%
2024 43 0.000012919 43 100%

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