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How popular is “Shaya” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shaya” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shaya” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shaya” 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
1955 5 0.000001245 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 7 6 8%
1979 20 0.000006011 13 7 30%
1980 20 0.000005806 20 100%
1981 18 0.000005203 13 5 44%
1982 26 0.000007412 21 5 62%
1983 12 0.000003465 6 6 0%
1984 16 0.000004586 9 7 13%
1985 17 0.000004763 12 5 41%
1986 25 0.000007028 16 9 28%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 24 0.000006495 15 9 25%
1989 26 0.000006763 14 12 8%
1990 31 0.000007843 14 17 -10%
1991 34 0.000008729 18 16 6%
1992 22 0.000005727 17 5 55%
1993 30 0.000007957 15 15 0%
1994 27 0.000007263 16 11 19%
1995 34 0.000009284 25 9 47%
1996 31 0.0000085 21 10 35%
1997 27 0.000007447 15 12 11%
1998 34 0.000009244 17 17 0%
1999 37 0.000010017 21 16 14%
2000 35 0.000009259 19 16 9%
2001 49 0.00001309 24 25 -2%
2002 42 0.000011235 18 24 -14%
2003 56 0.000014728 28 28 0%
2004 52 0.000013609 23 29 -12%
2005 52 0.000013525 23 29 -12%
2006 57 0.000014408 26 31 -9%
2007 55 0.000013758 27 28 -2%
2008 59 0.00001501 29 30 -2%
2009 68 0.0000178 25 43 -26%
2010 71 0.000019211 21 50 -41%
2011 76 0.000020778 23 53 -39%
2012 65 0.000017772 14 51 -57%
2013 72 0.000019749 23 49 -36%
2014 79 0.000021315 29 50 -27%
2015 74 0.000019995 21 53 -43%
2016 101 0.00002753 19 82 -62%
2017 84 0.000023489 15 69 -64%
2018 115 0.000032709 32 83 -44%
2019 137 0.000039471 25 112 -64%
2020 113 0.000033826 31 82 -45%
2021 137 0.000040437 31 106 -55%
2022 131 0.000038721 37 94 -44%
2023 147 0.000044395 27 120 -63%
2024 164 0.000049271 39 125 -52%

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