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How popular is “Shea” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shea” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shea” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shea” 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 7 0.000001998 7 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 5 0.000001256 5 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 100%
1957 16 0.000003808 9 7 13%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 100%
1959 24 0.000005772 11 13 -8%
1960 23 0.000005537 13 10 13%
1961 24 0.000005794 13 11 8%
1962 22 0.000005452 11 11 0%
1963 20 0.000005053 9 11 -10%
1964 34 0.000008746 25 9 47%
1965 35 0.000009654 21 14 20%
1966 51 0.000014673 36 15 41%
1967 66 0.000019441 43 23 30%
1968 86 0.000025456 42 44 -2%
1969 124 0.00003568 79 45 27%
1970 185 0.000051296 114 71 23%
1971 191 0.000055647 127 64 33%
1972 196 0.000062361 125 71 28%
1973 219 0.000072591 127 92 16%
1974 257 0.00008454 155 102 21%
1975 228 0.000075512 118 110 4%
1976 215 0.000070857 112 103 4%
1977 211 0.000066425 118 93 12%
1978 232 0.000073097 130 102 12%
1979 246 0.00007394 151 95 23%
1980 269 0.000078095 154 115 14%
1981 241 0.000069666 136 105 13%
1982 240 0.000068416 132 108 10%
1983 225 0.000064966 119 106 6%
1984 436 0.000124973 179 257 -18%
1985 427 0.000119638 193 234 -10%
1986 486 0.000136629 206 280 -15%
1987 490 0.000135899 229 261 -7%
1988 498 0.000134775 253 245 2%
1989 449 0.000116792 231 218 3%
1990 449 0.0001136 228 221 2%
1991 447 0.000114755 266 181 19%
1992 450 0.000117149 272 178 21%
1993 413 0.000109541 243 170 18%
1994 484 0.00013019 287 197 19%
1995 447 0.000122059 260 187 16%
1996 441 0.000120915 286 155 30%
1997 489 0.000134869 309 180 26%
1998 452 0.000122886 315 137 39%
1999 433 0.000117221 281 152 30%
2000 484 0.000128046 321 163 33%
2001 514 0.000137309 327 187 27%
2002 515 0.000137763 294 221 14%
2003 523 0.000137548 318 205 22%
2004 524 0.00013714 329 195 26%
2005 531 0.000138107 348 183 31%
2006 485 0.000122593 296 189 22%
2007 460 0.000115067 293 167 27%
2008 411 0.000104562 278 133 35%
2009 411 0.000107587 252 159 23%
2010 322 0.000087127 199 123 24%
2011 320 0.000087484 172 148 8%
2012 298 0.000081479 171 127 15%
2013 302 0.000082838 197 105 30%
2014 312 0.000084179 206 106 32%
2015 291 0.000078629 191 100 31%
2016 336 0.000091586 234 102 39%
2017 311 0.000086964 184 127 18%
2018 312 0.00008874 195 117 25%
2019 329 0.000094787 205 124 25%
2020 319 0.000095492 207 112 30%
2021 380 0.000112162 242 138 27%
2022 369 0.00010907 245 124 33%
2023 391 0.000118084 247 144 26%
2024 320 0.000096139 200 120 25%

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