The most popular nonbinary identities remain remarkably consistent, according to the 2025 Gender Census.
The Gender Census is an annual global online survey of nonbinary people, whose gender isn’t strictly male or female.
The 11 terms that received more than 20% in the Gender Census, in 2025, are the same ones that received more than 20% in the previous two years.
Primary Source: 2025 Gender Census
The Gender Census asks respondents, “Which of the following best describes in English how you think of yourself?”
Respondents may select as many checkboxes as they want.
A total of 43,096 respondents took part in the survey, which was conducted from July 30 to August 30, 2025.
A majority of respondents, 53%, were from the United States.
After that, the countries with the most respondents were the United Kingdom (11%), Canada (7%), Germany (6%), and Australia (5%).
We’ll begin our analysis by examining the terms chosen by more than 20% of respondents in 2025, before exploring words chosen by fewer than 20%.
This article will focus on the statistical results of the survey, rather than attempt to define each of the identity terms.
Definitions for identity terms can be found in previous articles, and future articles, in this series.
This article is part of my ongoing coverage of LGBT identities.
Gender Identity and Biological Sex discussed the most common transgender and nonbinary identities.
How Nonbinary people describe themselves and Nonbinary Nomenclature discussed the most common terms from the 2023 Gender Census.
Gender Census, 2024 examined the results of last year’s survey.
This article is part of Season 3 of LGBT by the Numbers, a series that explores LGBT identity in the United States, and around the world.
Thusfar, Season 3 has examined how the most common terms from the Gender Census have performed in annual surveys over the past decade.
Above 20%
Eleven identity terms received more than 20% in the 2025 Gender Census.
Nonbinary 61.7%
Queer 56.1%
Trans 46.5%
Transgender 41.1%
A person / human / [my name] / “I’m just me.” 39.7%
Gender Non-Conforming 36.0%
Genderqueer 34.6%
Enby 30.1%
Transmasculine 27.7%
Genderfluid 24.4%
Agender 24.3%
This graph shows the top identity terms from the 2025 Gender Census.
I created the graphs in the this article with flourish, a website that allows users to create compelling visual aids.
The top 11 terms in the 2025 Gender Census are in the same order as last year, with one exception.
Transgender surpassed “A person / human / [my name] / ‘I’m just me’ ” for fourth place.
From 2015 to 2025, Trans has outperformed Transgender by an average of 5.3%.
Normally, there is at least one identity term located in the gap between Trans and Transgender.
The only years where Trans and Transgender have been located next to each other, without at least one identity term in between, were 2015 and 2025.
Ten of the top 11 identity words increased in 2025, compared to the year before.
The largest increases were for queer (+2.5%), transgender (+2.3%), and genderqueer (+2.0%).
The only identity term in the top 11 that deceased in 2025 was genderfluid, which only fell by 0.3% from the year before.
The following line graphs show how the results of the 2025 Gender Census compare to those from previous years.
This graph shows how the top eight identity terms from the 2025 Gender Census performed each year since 2015.
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This graph shows how the sixth through eleventh most popular terms from the 2025 Gender Census have performed since 2015.
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Genderfluid and Agender have generally performed similarly in the Gender Census.
This year was no exception.
In 2025, the percent of respondents who identified as Genderfluid was only 0.1% higher than the percent who identified as Agender.
Queer received 56.1% in 2025, which is the most it has received since it was added as a checkbox in 2019.
Transgender received 41.1% in 2025, which is the most it has ever received in the Gender Census.
Now, let’s view these results together on an admittedly chaotic graph.
This graph shows the performance of identity words in the Gender Census, from 2015 to 2025, that received between 20% and 50%.
The line for nonbinary, and part of the line for queer, appear above the cutoff for the graph.
If you can stand the complexity and chaos of the graph, it’s able to convey a lot of interesting information, in a small amount of space.
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Below 20%
Nine terms received less than 20% in the 2025 Gender Census.
Fag 19.6%
Dyke 14.2%
Questioning 12.1%
Transfeminine 11.7%
Tranny 11.3%
Autigender 5.5%
None 4.5%
Cisgender 3.6%
Binary 1.6%
The term autigender refers to when someone’s gender, or their experience of gender, is influenced by their autism.
Autigender was chosen by 5.5% of respondents in the 2025 Gender Census.
You can learn more about autistic people’s experiences with gender in a great article from Men’s Health.
This graph shows the bottom identity words from the 2025 Gender Census.
Terms are added and removed from the bottom of the checkbox list each year.
Therefore, it’s not possible to compare results from year-to-year for all checkboxes.
Nevertheless, let’s examine the bottom identity terms that were available in both 2024 and 2025.
In 2025, fag (+2.5%) saw the largest increase, and questioning (-1.8%) saw the largest decrease, compared to the year before.
Dyke wasn’t listed in the 2024 survey, but it did appear in 2023.
From 2023 to 2025, dyke increased by 2.3%.
You can compare the performance of the bottom identity words from the 2025 Gender Census to previous years in the graph below.
This graph shows the how the bottom identity words from the 2024 and 2025 Gender Census have performed each year since 2015.
This line graph previews many of the terms we will examine more closely in subsequent articles.
As we continue Season 3 of LGBT by the Numbers, we will explore the identity terms that received less than 20% in the Gender Census.
So join me next time as we continue to explore LGBT identity, by the numbers.
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