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How popular is “Gwenevere” in the USA?

Number of people named “Gwenevere” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Gwenevere” by birth year

This chart shows how “Gwenevere” 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
1921 5 0.000002142 5 100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 12 100%
1954 16 0.000004019 16 100%
1955 17 0.000004234 17 100%
1956 22 0.000005336 22 100%
1957 26 0.000006187 26 100%
1958 18 0.000004354 18 100%
1959 23 0.000005532 23 100%
1960 21 0.000005056 21 100%
1961 20 0.000004828 20 100%
1962 30 0.000007434 30 100%
1963 21 0.000005305 21 100%
1964 10 0.000002572 10 100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 11 0.00000305 11 100%
1971 6 0.000001748 6 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1981 6 0.000001734 6 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2002 14 0.000003745 14 100%
2003 18 0.000004734 18 100%
2004 13 0.000003402 13 100%
2005 11 0.000002861 11 100%
2006 19 0.000004803 19 100%
2007 20 0.000005003 20 100%
2008 28 0.000007123 28 100%
2009 25 0.000006544 25 100%
2010 34 0.0000092 34 100%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 100%
2012 35 0.00000957 35 100%
2013 37 0.000010149 37 100%
2014 39 0.000010522 39 100%
2015 49 0.00001324 49 100%
2016 48 0.000013084 48 100%
2017 52 0.000014541 52 100%
2018 48 0.000013652 48 100%
2019 55 0.000015846 55 100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 100%
2021 32 0.000009445 32 100%
2022 40 0.000011823 40 100%
2023 40 0.00001208 40 100%
2024 43 0.000012919 43 100%

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