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How popular is “Gurney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gurney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gurney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gurney” 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
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 16 0.000014071 16 -100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 -100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 -100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 -100%
1917 20 0.000009966 20 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 -100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 -100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 -100%
1921 17 0.000007282 17 -100%
1922 11 0.000004805 11 -100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1924 23 0.000009657 23 -100%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 -100%
1926 13 0.000005662 13 -100%
1927 21 0.000009054 21 -100%
1928 26 0.0000115 26 -100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 16 0.000007603 16 -100%
1932 22 0.00001042 22 -100%
1933 14 0.000007002 14 -100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 -100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1937 9 0.000004224 9 -100%
1938 16 0.000007231 16 -100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 20 0.000008209 20 -100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 17 0.00000632 17 -100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 -100%
1946 15 0.000004694 15 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 -100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 -100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 -100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 9 0.000002165 9 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1961 5 0.000001207 5 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%

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