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The name Gene is a diminutive form of Eugene. The table below indicates the number of times the name Gene 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 Gene**
Use of the Name Gene for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
124,399	34,663	5,532	667	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Gene has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Gene last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1999, the last year shown on the table. 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 Gene**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	772	7
1881	515	12
1882	502	14	767	7
1883	612	10
1884	583	11
1885	404	20
1886	524	13
1887	383	19	982	7
1888	590	12	767	12
1889	600	11	924	9
1890	445	17	845	11
1891	461	15	679	16
1892	398	23	775	15
1893	386	22	877	12
1894	444	19
1895	350	28	875	14
1896	359	29	736	19
1897	445	19
1898	399	25	777	19
1899	397	22	853	15
1900	304	48	710	26
1901	318	31	671	23
1902	299	41	675	25
1903	280	45	581	32
1904	249	58	739	23
1905	303	44	749	24
1906	249	63	734	25
1907	261	65	765	24
1908	238	78	894	20
1909	244	81	639	38
1910	253	91	758	32
1911	254	102	642	45
1912	256	187	681	54
1913	237	248	589	76
1914	226	351	534	109
1915	211	495	534	140
1916	212	518	622	119
1917	206	548	500	174
1918	194	659	581	151
1919	186	682	541	161
1920	173	811	485	200
1921	170	872	525	182
1922	144	1,084	468	214
1923	140	1,171	466	218
1924	135	1,280	435	257
1925	111	1,587	352	373
1926	91	2,084	409	279
1927	72	2,791	437	244
1928	62	3,085	462	223
1929	67	2,810	532	162
1930	70	2,781	523	167
1931	64	2,767	601	121
1932	64	2,938	609	117
1933	66	2,771	697	88
1934	67	2,848	758	78
1935	66	2,936	825	69
1936	66	2,901	783	75
1937	61	3,167	793	75
1938	65	3,144	814	75
1939	69	3,014	824	71
1940	70	3,051	938	59
1941	72	3,068	824	77
1942	82	3,126	666	127
1943	89	2,867	766	102
1944	95	2,585	735	107
1945	100	2,368	723	106
1946	98	2,752	694	134
1947	103	2,883	833	112
1948	111	2,531	910	91
1949	119	2,437	907	96
1950	122	2,239
1951	126	2,230
1952	138	2,067
1953	143	2,010
1954	151	1,897
1955	152	1,884
1956	171	1,738
1957	169	1,845
1958	168	1,819
1959	163	1,924
1960	175	1,792
1961	185	1,664
1962	202	1,519
1963	191	1,558
1964	181	1,528
1965	193	1,310
1966	205	1,150
1967	211	1,064
1968	215	1,072
1969	224	1,040
1970	250	931
1971	255	874
1972	264	743
1973	293	622
1974	316	574
1975	322	556
1976	355	462
1977	342	522
1978	361	452
1979	360	488
1980	380	450
1981	399	416
1982	409	413
1983	422	373
1984	433	373
1985	465	343
1986	481	328
1987	492	323
1988	523	303
1989	568	291
1990	620	266
1991	580	304
1992	655	251
1993	696	222
1994	722	209
1995	809	174
1996	838	170
1997	858	164
1998
1999	923	159
Totals:		124,399		5,776

During the last 125 years, parents have used Gene as a boy's name about 95% of the time and less frequently (about 4% 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 Gene appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 119 times during the last 125 years.

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