San Francisco vs The City by the Bay

San Francisco

name
  • A major coastal city in California of over 800,000 widely known for its unique culture, architecture, and LGBT population; formerly Yerba Buena (pre-1847). 

  • Any place or institution named after St. Francis. 

  • The extinct culture of the city of the same name also known as the Ramaytush. 

The City by the Bay

How often have the words San Francisco and The City by the Bay occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )