girls:
5 births since 2015
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
134 births since 2007
#4452 (3rd percentile)
overall:
139 births since 2007
#7600 (2nd percentile)
The name Gatsby is the #7,600 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 139 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,452 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 134 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2015.
Gatsby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Gatsby is available in 12 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023 (12 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gatsby has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gatsby reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #889) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gatsby ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 47.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gatsby reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #960) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gatsby".
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