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How popular is “Gussie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gussie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gussie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gussie” 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
1880 54 0.000268011 54 100%
1881 50 0.000259487 50 100%
1882 70 0.00031598 70 100%
1883 68 0.000313442 68 100%
1884 67 0.000275198 62 5 85%
1885 87 0.000361215 87 100%
1886 95 0.000372088 89 6 87%
1887 87 0.000351669 82 5 89%
1888 124 0.000414059 118 6 90%
1889 133 0.000460294 133 100%
1890 130 0.000431319 125 5 92%
1891 137 0.000477896 137 100%
1892 151 0.00045159 151 100%
1893 138 0.000424324 138 100%
1894 170 0.000501934 165 5 94%
1895 155 0.00044157 150 5 94%
1896 167 0.000467154 167 100%
1897 177 0.00051015 166 11 88%
1898 188 0.00049285 181 7 93%
1899 145 0.000427434 137 8 89%
1900 243 0.000539691 236 7 94%
1901 173 0.000500272 167 6 93%
1902 194 0.000501638 185 9 91%
1903 176 0.0004617 170 6 93%
1904 178 0.000441156 173 5 94%
1905 213 0.000502451 205 8 92%
1906 197 0.000459796 188 9 91%
1907 200 0.000429747 194 6 94%
1908 220 0.000450221 213 7 94%
1909 218 0.000426428 211 7 94%
1910 255 0.000431683 240 15 88%
1911 258 0.000400448 245 13 90%
1912 280 0.000283383 259 21 85%
1913 297 0.000261188 274 23 85%
1914 355 0.000250645 336 19 89%
1915 366 0.000199735 344 22 88%
1916 414 0.000214018 388 26 87%
1917 396 0.000197334 364 32 84%
1918 417 0.000192068 391 26 88%
1919 407 0.000192869 374 33 84%
1920 361 0.000159548 328 33 82%
1921 334 0.000143071 308 26 84%
1922 347 0.000151584 312 35 80%
1923 290 0.000125951 265 25 83%
1924 295 0.000123866 262 33 78%
1925 319 0.000136716 286 33 79%
1926 278 0.000121085 243 35 75%
1927 246 0.000106064 219 27 78%
1928 203 0.000089786 179 24 76%
1929 176 0.000080286 153 23 74%
1930 190 0.000085459 167 23 76%
1931 170 0.000080784 151 19 78%
1932 177 0.000083835 154 23 74%
1933 171 0.000085524 153 18 79%
1934 133 0.00006404 118 15 77%
1935 132 0.000063161 119 13 80%
1936 149 0.000071718 132 17 77%
1937 160 0.000075094 141 19 76%
1938 137 0.000061919 121 16 77%
1939 131 0.000059452 115 16 76%
1940 141 0.000061233 129 12 83%
1941 125 0.000051305 105 20 68%
1942 103 0.000037704 90 13 75%
1943 94 0.000033303 80 14 70%
1944 128 0.000047582 108 20 69%
1945 88 0.000033171 69 19 57%
1946 77 0.000024098 68 9 77%
1947 92 0.000025539 82 10 78%
1948 80 0.000023171 67 13 68%
1949 71 0.000020374 61 10 72%
1950 89 0.000025404 79 10 78%
1951 89 0.00002416 77 12 73%
1952 69 0.000018167 57 12 65%
1953 45 0.000011677 38 7 69%
1954 62 0.000015575 52 10 68%
1955 56 0.000013947 48 8 71%
1956 58 0.000014067 48 10 66%
1957 46 0.000010947 41 5 78%
1958 44 0.000010644 38 6 73%
1959 51 0.000012266 37 14 45%
1960 30 0.000007222 30 100%
1961 39 0.000009415 28 11 44%
1962 37 0.000009169 30 7 62%
1963 18 0.000004548 18 100%
1964 22 0.000005659 22 100%
1965 18 0.000004965 18 100%
1966 25 0.000007193 25 100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 15 0.000004159 10 5 33%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1979 11 0.000003306 6 5 9%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%

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