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How popular is “Sheilah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheilah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheilah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheilah” 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
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1934 11 0.000005297 11 100%
1935 17 0.000008134 17 100%
1936 16 0.000007701 16 100%
1937 28 0.000013141 28 100%
1938 16 0.000007231 16 100%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 100%
1940 28 0.00001216 28 100%
1941 37 0.000015186 37 100%
1942 29 0.000010616 29 100%
1943 39 0.000013817 39 100%
1944 33 0.000012267 33 100%
1945 41 0.000015455 41 100%
1946 45 0.000014083 45 100%
1947 49 0.000013602 49 100%
1948 60 0.000017379 60 100%
1949 53 0.000015209 53 100%
1950 58 0.000016556 58 100%
1951 59 0.000016016 59 100%
1952 68 0.000017904 68 100%
1953 82 0.000021279 82 100%
1954 88 0.000022107 88 100%
1955 199 0.000049563 199 100%
1956 78 0.000018918 78 100%
1957 86 0.000020466 86 100%
1958 81 0.000019594 81 100%
1959 85 0.000020443 85 100%
1960 57 0.000013722 57 100%
1961 32 0.000007725 32 100%
1962 49 0.000012143 49 100%
1963 50 0.000012632 50 100%
1964 53 0.000013633 53 100%
1965 37 0.000010206 37 100%
1966 37 0.000010645 37 100%
1967 42 0.000012372 42 100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 100%
1969 39 0.000011222 39 100%
1970 46 0.000012755 46 100%
1971 31 0.000009032 31 100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 100%
1973 24 0.000007955 24 100%
1974 23 0.000007566 23 100%
1975 30 0.000009936 30 100%
1976 31 0.000010217 31 100%
1977 22 0.000006926 22 100%
1978 28 0.000008822 28 100%
1979 18 0.00000541 18 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%

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