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How popular is “Gardenia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gardenia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gardenia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gardenia” 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
1917 5 0.000002492 5 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 100%
1934 13 0.00000626 13 100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 100%
1937 26 0.000012203 26 100%
1938 17 0.000007683 17 100%
1939 10 0.000004538 10 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 100%
1943 18 0.000006377 18 100%
1944 11 0.000004089 11 100%
1945 18 0.000006785 18 100%
1946 15 0.000004694 15 100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 100%
1948 17 0.000004924 17 100%
1949 15 0.000004304 15 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 100%
1952 18 0.000004739 18 100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 100%
1956 18 0.000004366 18 100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 100%
1961 16 0.000003863 16 100%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1966 11 0.000003165 11 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 10 0.000003148 10 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 100%
1990 22 0.000005566 22 100%
1991 19 0.000004878 19 100%
1992 70 0.000018223 70 100%
1993 42 0.00001114 42 100%
1994 41 0.000011028 41 100%
1995 28 0.000007646 28 100%
1996 23 0.000006306 23 100%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 100%
1998 21 0.000005709 21 100%
1999 31 0.000008392 31 100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 100%
2002 19 0.000005083 19 100%
2003 19 0.000004997 19 100%
2004 16 0.000004187 16 100%
2005 24 0.000006242 24 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 11 0.000002752 11 100%
2008 15 0.000003816 15 100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 100%
2010 18 0.00000487 18 100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 12 0.000003547 12 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%
2024 11 0.000003305 11 100%

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