How popular is “Shawne” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Shawne” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Shawne” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1948	6	0.000001738	6		100%
1949	6	0.000001722	6		100%
1952	5	0.000001316	5		100%
1953	8	0.000002076	8		100%
1954	9	0.000002261	9		100%
1955	10	0.000002491	10		100%
1956	8	0.00000194	8		100%
1957	19	0.000004522	19		100%
1958	12	0.000002903	12		100%
1959	21	0.000005051	21		100%
1960	23	0.000005537	23		100%
1961	23	0.000005552	23		100%
1962	35	0.000008673	30	5	71%
1963	35	0.000008842	35		100%
1964	51	0.000013119	41	10	61%
1965	53	0.000014619	43	10	62%
1966	31	0.000008919	31		100%
1967	49	0.000014433	36	13	47%
1968	54	0.000015984	41	13	52%
1969	57	0.000016401	47	10	65%
1970	65	0.000018023	47	18	45%
1971	63	0.000018355	37	26	17%
1972	62	0.000019726	33	29	6%
1973	51	0.000016905	28	23	10%
1974	43	0.000014145	27	16	26%
1975	41	0.000013579	20	21	-2%
1976	31	0.000010217	16	15	3%
1977	33	0.000010389	21	12	27%
1978	24	0.000007562	16	8	33%
1979	14	0.000004208		14	-100%
1980	20	0.000005806	8	12	-20%
1981	10	0.000002891	5	5	0%
1982	11	0.000003136	6	5	9%
1983	10	0.000002887		10	-100%
1984	22	0.000006306	16	6	45%
1985	20	0.000005604	10	10	0%
1986	19	0.000005341	10	9	5%
1987	5	0.000001387		5	-100%
1988	19	0.000005142	8	11	-16%
1989	20	0.000005202	11	9	10%
1990	14	0.000003542	8	6	14%
1991	13	0.000003337	5	8	-23%
1992	11	0.000002864	6	5	9%
1993	12	0.000003183	5	7	-17%
1994	18	0.000004842	6	12	-33%
1995	13	0.00000355	7	6	8%
1996	5	0.000001371		5	-100%
1997	6	0.000001655		6	-100%
1998	6	0.000001631		6	-100%
2000	5	0.000001323		5	-100%
2002	6	0.000001605		6	-100%
2004	5	0.000001309		5	-100%
2005	7	0.000001821		7	-100%
2006	6	0.000001517		6	-100%
2007	6	0.000001501		6	-100%
2008	8	0.000002035		8	-100%

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