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How popular is “Shaylyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shaylyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shaylyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shaylyn” 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
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1979 31 0.000009318 31 100%
1980 22 0.000006387 22 100%
1981 20 0.000005781 20 100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 25 0.000007005 25 100%
1986 27 0.00000759 27 100%
1987 30 0.00000832 30 100%
1988 37 0.000010013 37 100%
1989 58 0.000015087 58 100%
1990 70 0.00001771 70 100%
1991 62 0.000015917 62 100%
1992 69 0.000017963 69 100%
1993 88 0.00002334 88 100%
1994 77 0.000020712 77 100%
1995 66 0.000018022 66 100%
1996 81 0.000022209 81 100%
1997 83 0.000022892 83 100%
1998 86 0.000023381 86 100%
1999 82 0.000022199 82 100%
2000 87 0.000023016 87 100%
2001 79 0.000021104 79 100%
2002 77 0.000020598 77 100%
2003 59 0.000015517 59 100%
2004 70 0.00001832 70 100%
2005 70 0.000018206 70 100%
2006 64 0.000016177 64 100%
2007 75 0.000018761 75 100%
2008 53 0.000013484 53 100%
2009 57 0.000014921 57 100%
2010 59 0.000015964 59 100%
2011 49 0.000013396 49 100%
2012 28 0.000007656 28 100%
2013 24 0.000006583 24 100%
2014 31 0.000008364 31 100%
2015 33 0.000008917 33 100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 100%
2020 15 0.00000449 15 100%
2021 13 0.000003837 13 100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 100%

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