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How popular is “Sharyl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sharyl” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sharyl” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sharyl” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sharyl” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sharyl” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sharyl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sharyl” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1937 8 0.000003755 8 100%
1938 15 0.000006779 15 100%
1939 22 0.000009984 22 100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 100%
1942 43 0.00001574 43 100%
1943 62 0.000021966 62 100%
1944 59 0.000021932 59 100%
1945 67 0.000025255 67 100%
1946 61 0.00001909 61 100%
1947 91 0.000025261 91 100%
1948 65 0.000018827 65 100%
1949 79 0.00002267 79 100%
1950 72 0.000020552 72 100%
1951 80 0.000021717 80 100%
1952 69 0.000018167 69 100%
1953 71 0.000018424 71 100%
1954 48 0.000012058 48 100%
1955 62 0.000015442 62 100%
1956 80 0.000019403 80 100%
1957 79 0.0000188 79 100%
1958 92 0.000022255 92 100%
1959 77 0.000018519 77 100%
1960 105 0.000025278 105 100%
1961 131 0.000031625 131 100%
1962 93 0.000023046 93 100%
1963 114 0.000028801 114 100%
1964 101 0.00002598 101 100%
1965 104 0.000028686 104 100%
1966 96 0.000027621 96 100%
1967 68 0.00002003 68 100%
1968 62 0.000018352 62 100%
1969 70 0.000020142 70 100%
1970 44 0.0000122 44 100%
1971 43 0.000012528 43 100%
1972 32 0.000010181 32 100%
1973 24 0.000007955 24 100%
1974 14 0.000004605 14 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 100%
1982 12 0.000003421 12 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 7 0.000001821 7 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%

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