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How popular is “Shawan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shawan” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shawan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shawan” 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
1965 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 15 0.000004159 15 100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 100%
1973 21 0.000006961 15 6 43%
1974 20 0.000006579 14 6 40%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 100%
1976 22 0.00000725 17 5 55%
1977 21 0.000006611 15 6 43%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 20 0.000005806 15 5 50%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 15 0.000004276 10 5 33%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 12 0.00000344 7 5 17%
1986 13 0.000003655 8 5 23%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1990 14 0.000003542 9 5 29%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%

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