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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shayla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shayla” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shayla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shayla” 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
1950 5 0.000001427 5 100%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1957 11 0.000002618 11 100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 100%
1962 13 0.000003222 13 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 19 0.000004887 19 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 13 0.00000374 13 100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 100%
1969 29 0.000008345 29 100%
1970 34 0.000009427 34 100%
1971 164 0.000047781 164 100%
1972 74 0.000023544 74 100%
1973 68 0.00002254 68 100%
1974 79 0.000025987 79 100%
1975 108 0.000035769 108 100%
1976 178 0.000058663 178 100%
1977 327 0.000102944 327 100%
1978 315 0.000099248 315 100%
1979 302 0.000090772 302 100%
1980 441 0.00012803 441 100%
1981 492 0.000142222 492 100%
1982 506 0.000144243 506 100%
1983 533 0.000153898 533 100%
1984 520 0.00014905 520 100%
1985 561 0.000157182 556 5 98%
1986 548 0.000154059 548 100%
1987 583 0.000161692 583 100%
1988 676 0.000182948 676 100%
1989 715 0.000185983 710 5 99%
1990 799 0.000202152 799 100%
1991 851 0.00021847 851 100%
1992 865 0.000225186 865 100%
1993 831 0.000220408 831 100%
1994 811 0.000218148 811 100%
1995 846 0.000231012 846 100%
1996 1054 0.000288989 1054 100%
1997 1041 0.000287113 1041 100%
1998 993 0.000269968 993 100%
1999 1187 0.000321343 1187 100%
2000 1009 0.000266938 1009 100%
2001 1052 0.000281029 1052 100%
2002 975 0.000260814 975 100%
2003 999 0.000262734 999 100%
2004 926 0.00024235 919 7 98%
2005 815 0.000211972 815 100%
2006 1004 0.00025378 1004 100%
2007 1028 0.000257149 1028 100%
2008 964 0.000245251 964 100%
2009 802 0.000209938 802 100%
2010 694 0.000187784 694 100%
2011 577 0.000157745 577 100%
2012 473 0.000129328 473 100%
2013 428 0.0001174 428 100%
2014 375 0.000101177 375 100%
2015 354 0.000095652 354 100%
2016 270 0.000073596 270 100%
2017 242 0.00006767 242 100%
2018 218 0.000062004 218 100%
2019 195 0.000056181 195 100%
2020 197 0.000058972 197 100%
2021 160 0.000047226 160 100%
2022 140 0.000041382 140 100%
2023 130 0.000039261 130 100%
2024 111 0.000033348 111 100%

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