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How popular is “Shaw” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shaw” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shaw” 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 “Shaw” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shaw” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shaw” 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
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 8 0.000001926 8 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 -100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 -100%
1969 18 0.000005179 5 13 -44%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 -100%
1971 21 0.000006118 5 16 -52%
1972 20 0.000006363 20 -100%
1973 23 0.000007624 5 18 -57%
1974 33 0.000010855 5 28 -70%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 -100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 -100%
1977 12 0.000003778 12 -100%
1978 22 0.000006932 22 -100%
1979 20 0.000006011 20 -100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 -100%
1981 19 0.000005492 19 -100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 -100%
1983 19 0.000005486 19 -100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 -100%
1985 22 0.000006164 22 -100%
1986 25 0.000007028 25 -100%
1987 23 0.000006379 23 -100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
1989 19 0.000004942 19 -100%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 -100%
1991 13 0.000003337 13 -100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 -100%
1993 18 0.000004774 18 -100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 -100%
1995 19 0.000005188 19 -100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 -100%
1997 24 0.000006619 24 -100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 -100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 -100%
2000 22 0.00000582 22 -100%
2001 25 0.000006678 25 -100%
2002 23 0.000006153 23 -100%
2003 13 0.000003419 13 -100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 -100%
2005 20 0.000005202 6 14 -40%
2006 31 0.000007836 31 -100%
2007 25 0.000006254 25 -100%
2008 19 0.000004834 19 -100%
2009 18 0.000004712 18 -100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
2011 25 0.000006835 25 -100%
2012 36 0.000009843 36 -100%
2013 29 0.000007955 29 -100%
2014 34 0.000009173 9 25 -47%
2015 36 0.000009727 5 31 -72%
2016 39 0.00001063 6 33 -69%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 31 0.000008817 31 -100%
2019 36 0.000010372 5 31 -72%
2020 39 0.000011675 39 -100%
2021 32 0.000009445 32 -100%
2022 34 0.00001005 34 -100%
2023 26 0.000007852 26 -100%
2024 30 0.000009013 5 25 -67%

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