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How popular is “Guilford” in the USA?

Number of people named “Guilford” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Guilford” by birth year

This chart shows how “Guilford” 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
1885 5 0.000020759 5 -100%
1890 8 0.000026543 8 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 18 0.00001583 18 -100%
1914 16 0.000011297 16 -100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 18 0.00000897 18 -100%
1918 17 0.00000783 17 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 -100%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 -100%
1923 22 0.000009555 22 -100%
1924 20 0.000008398 20 -100%
1925 21 0.000009 21 -100%
1926 17 0.000007404 17 -100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 -100%
1928 14 0.000006192 14 -100%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 14 0.000006297 14 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 16 0.000007578 16 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 -100%
1943 7 0.00000248 7 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 -100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 -100%
1954 9 0.000002261 9 -100%
1955 7 0.000001743 7 -100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%

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