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How popular is “Sheilla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheilla” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheilla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheilla” 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
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 100%
1948 15 0.000004345 15 100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 100%
1950 13 0.000003711 13 100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 100%
1956 11 0.000002668 11 100%
1957 13 0.000003094 13 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 100%
1962 23 0.0000057 23 100%
1963 15 0.00000379 15 100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 100%
1968 10 0.00000296 10 100%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 100%
1972 8 0.000002545 8 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 12 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1992 7 0.000001822 7 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%

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