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The name Gary is of English origin, and means spear. The table below indicates the number of times the name Gary has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Gary**
Use of the Name Gary for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
891,205	442,767	64,404	12,116	5,034	1,816	912

The table below indicates the number of times the name Gary has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Gary**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	771	7
1881	813	6
1882	620	10
1883
1884
1885	728	8
1886	793	7
1887	707	8
1888	966	6
1889
1890	613	11
1891	887	6
1892	529	15
1893	864	7
1894	691	10
1895	618	12
1896	566	14
1897	563	14
1898	921	7
1899	812	8
1900	710	13
1901	699	10
1902	494	19
1903	868	8
1904	703	12
1905	601	16
1906	572	17
1907	646	16
1908	479	27
1909	863	12
1910	766	16
1911	600	26
1912	630	44
1913	749	39
1914	648	61
1915	649	80
1916	697	73
1917	718	73
1918	741	76
1919	689	82
1920	764	75
1921	712	85
1922	770	74
1923	694	87
1924	729	83
1925	585	115
1926	606	107
1927	537	131
1928	396	228
1929	233	539
1930	193	716
1931	151	1,000
1932	136	1,294
1933	80	2,254
1934	60	3,352
1935	44	4,492
1936	38	5,185
1937	29	6,767
1938	22	8,852
1939	21	9,692
1940	19	12,569
1941	19	14,535
1942	18	17,084
1943	16	17,788
1944	15	20,015	962	65
1945	13	21,313
1946	12	26,834	946	77
1947	12	29,944	928	92
1948	12	28,301
1949	12	28,885
1950	10	33,699
1951	10	38,001
1952	10	38,723
1953	10	36,890
1954	9	37,853
1955	12	34,311
1956	13	31,779
1957	13	29,484
1958	17	25,264
1959	20	23,296
1960	22	21,685
1961	21	22,109
1962	22	20,892
1963	24	18,928
1964	26	17,199
1965	27	15,292
1966	28	14,150
1967	32	12,617
1968	32	11,963
1969	35	11,151
1970	35	10,713
1971	38	9,187
1972	41	7,752
1973	44	6,866
1974	48	6,440
1975	50	6,115
1976	52	5,587
1977	58	5,441
1978	60	5,110
1979	59	5,032
1980	63	5,024
1981	62	4,947
1982	64	4,635
1983	68	4,259
1984	75	3,947
1985	82	3,809
1986	84	3,722
1987	87	3,477
1988	100	3,240
1989	106	3,130
1990	114	3,069
1991	124	2,673
1992	139	2,391
1993	156	2,065
1994	167	1,900
1995	190	1,623
1996	202	1,541
1997	232	1,326
1998	235	1,342
1999	251	1,250
2000	275	1,166
2001	294	1,013
2002	285	1,039
2003	324	904
2004	327	912
Totals:		891,205		234

During the last 125 years, parents have used Gary as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Gary appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 122 times during the last 125 years.

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