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How popular is “Gissel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gissel” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gissel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gissel” 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
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 7 0.000002006 7 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 13 0.000003655 13 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1989 17 0.000004422 17 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 100%
1993 35 0.000009283 35 100%
1994 47 0.000012642 47 100%
1995 32 0.000008738 32 100%
1996 26 0.000007129 26 100%
1997 74 0.00002041 74 100%
1998 102 0.000027731 102 100%
1999 143 0.000038713 143 100%
2000 140 0.000037038 140 100%
2001 146 0.000039002 146 100%
2002 149 0.000039858 149 100%
2003 145 0.000038135 145 100%
2004 152 0.000039781 152 100%
2005 128 0.000033291 128 100%
2006 116 0.000029321 116 100%
2007 137 0.00003427 137 100%
2008 140 0.000035617 140 100%
2009 116 0.000030365 116 100%
2010 98 0.000026517 98 100%
2011 85 0.000023238 85 100%
2012 59 0.000016132 59 100%
2013 46 0.000012618 46 100%
2014 47 0.000012681 47 100%
2015 38 0.000010268 38 100%
2016 36 0.000009813 36 100%
2017 29 0.000008109 29 100%
2018 28 0.000007964 28 100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 100%
2022 15 0.000004434 15 100%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 100%

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