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How popular is “Shekita” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shekita” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shekita” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shekita” 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
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 100%
1976 12 0.000003955 12 100%
1977 22 0.000006926 22 100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1981 25 0.000007227 25 100%
1982 19 0.000005416 19 100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 100%
1985 18 0.000005043 18 100%
1986 20 0.000005623 20 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 18 0.000004871 18 100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%

Explore other names

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  9. Shela
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