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How popular is “Gunnar” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gunnar” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gunnar” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gunnar” 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
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 21 0.000018468 21 -100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 -100%
1915 23 0.000012552 23 -100%
1916 20 0.000010339 20 -100%
1917 22 0.000010963 22 -100%
1918 27 0.000012436 27 -100%
1919 15 0.000007108 15 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 -100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 12 0.000005039 12 -100%
1925 23 0.000009857 23 -100%
1926 18 0.00000784 18 -100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 -100%
1928 15 0.000006634 15 -100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 -100%
1930 13 0.000005847 13 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 -100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 -100%
1934 8 0.000003852 8 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 9 0.000003393 9 -100%
1946 13 0.000004068 13 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 13 0.000003765 13 -100%
1949 11 0.000003157 11 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 -100%
1951 19 0.000005158 19 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 27 0.000007006 27 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 12 -100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 -100%
1956 22 0.000005336 22 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 32 0.000007741 32 -100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 -100%
1960 21 0.000005056 21 -100%
1961 28 0.00000676 28 -100%
1962 22 0.000005452 22 -100%
1963 21 0.000005305 21 -100%
1964 22 0.000005659 22 -100%
1965 18 0.000004965 18 -100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 -100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 -100%
1968 27 0.000007992 27 -100%
1969 23 0.000006618 23 -100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 -100%
1971 39 0.000011362 39 -100%
1972 16 0.000005091 16 -100%
1973 25 0.000008287 25 -100%
1974 28 0.000009211 28 -100%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 -100%
1976 15 0.000004943 15 -100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 -100%
1979 22 0.000006613 22 -100%
1980 20 0.000005806 20 -100%
1981 19 0.000005492 19 -100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 -100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 -100%
1984 27 0.000007739 27 -100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 -100%
1986 38 0.000010683 38 -100%
1987 41 0.000011371 41 -100%
1988 34 0.000009202 34 -100%
1989 56 0.000014566 56 -100%
1990 56 0.000014168 56 -100%
1991 206 0.000052885 206 -100%
1992 191 0.000049723 191 -100%
1993 188 0.000049864 188 -100%
1994 342 0.000091994 342 -100%
1995 317 0.000086561 317 -100%
1996 337 0.0000924 337 -100%
1997 347 0.000095704 347 -100%
1998 412 0.000112011 412 -100%
1999 370 0.000100166 370 -100%
2000 352 0.000093124 352 -100%
2001 357 0.000095368 357 -100%
2002 398 0.000106466 398 -100%
2003 373 0.000098098 373 -100%
2004 400 0.000104687 6 394 -97%
2005 450 0.00011704 450 -100%
2006 512 0.000129417 512 -100%
2007 464 0.000116067 464 -100%
2008 488 0.000124152 488 -100%
2009 480 0.000125649 480 -100%
2010 457 0.000123656 457 -100%
2011 520 0.000142162 520 -100%
2012 603 0.000164873 603 -100%
2013 758 0.000207918 758 -100%
2014 816 0.000220161 816 -100%
2015 830 0.000224269 5 825 -99%
2016 804 0.000219151 6 798 -99%
2017 707 0.000197696 707 -100%
2018 621 0.000176626 621 -100%
2019 581 0.00016739 5 576 -98%
2020 542 0.000162247 542 -100%
2021 545 0.000160864 545 -100%
2022 485 0.000143358 485 -100%
2023 478 0.000144359 478 -100%
2024 474 0.000142406 474 -100%

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