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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sheli” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheli” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheli” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheli” 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
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 100%
1959 12 0.000002886 12 100%
1960 20 0.000004815 20 100%
1961 17 0.000004104 17 100%
1962 28 0.000006939 28 100%
1963 27 0.000006821 27 100%
1964 36 0.00000926 36 100%
1965 26 0.000007172 26 100%
1966 30 0.000008631 30 100%
1967 29 0.000008542 29 100%
1968 43 0.000012728 43 100%
1969 30 0.000008632 30 100%
1970 30 0.000008318 30 100%
1971 37 0.00001078 37 100%
1972 36 0.000011454 36 100%
1973 26 0.000008618 26 100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 100%
1975 22 0.000007286 22 100%
1976 18 0.000005932 18 100%
1977 14 0.000004407 14 100%
1978 15 0.000004726 15 100%
1979 12 0.000003607 12 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 9 0.00000231 9 100%

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