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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shelia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelia” 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
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 100%
1922 13 0.000005679 13 100%
1923 11 0.000004777 11 100%
1924 15 0.000006298 15 100%
1925 22 0.000009429 22 100%
1926 23 0.000010018 23 100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 14 0.000006386 14 100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 100%
1931 22 0.000010454 22 100%
1932 23 0.000010894 23 100%
1933 27 0.000013504 27 100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 100%
1935 43 0.000020575 43 100%
1936 44 0.000021179 44 100%
1937 59 0.000027691 59 100%
1938 64 0.000028926 64 100%
1939 72 0.000032676 72 100%
1940 82 0.000035611 82 100%
1941 130 0.000053357 130 100%
1942 152 0.000055641 152 100%
1943 215 0.000076172 215 100%
1944 219 0.00008141 219 100%
1945 305 0.000114968 305 100%
1946 550 0.000172127 550 100%
1947 744 0.000206533 744 100%
1948 795 0.000230267 795 100%
1949 821 0.000235596 821 100%
1950 957 0.000273166 957 100%
1951 1160 0.000314897 1160 100%
1952 1236 0.000325434 1236 100%
1953 1484 0.00038509 1484 100%
1954 1672 0.000420026 1666 6 99%
1955 1843 0.00045902 1837 6 99%
1956 1951 0.000473195 1946 5 99%
1957 2099 0.000499507 2093 6 99%
1958 2097 0.000507269 2091 6 99%
1959 2293 0.000551468 2283 10 99%
1960 2264 0.000545041 2256 8 99%
1961 2013 0.000485962 2005 8 99%
1962 2276 0.000564012 2271 5 100%
1963 2071 0.000523218 2063 8 99%
1964 2021 0.000519857 2012 9 99%
1965 1903 0.000524901 1892 11 99%
1966 1812 0.000521341 1806 6 99%
1967 1476 0.00043477 1476 100%
1968 1363 0.000403444 1358 5 99%
1969 1304 0.000375217 1304 100%
1970 1197 0.000331899 1192 5 99%
1971 1044 0.000304164 1037 7 99%
1972 803 0.000255489 803 100%
1973 691 0.000229044 691 100%
1974 567 0.000186513 567 100%
1975 450 0.000149037 450 100%
1976 339 0.000111723 339 100%
1977 284 0.000089407 284 100%
1978 251 0.000079083 251 100%
1979 228 0.00006853 228 100%
1980 218 0.000063289 218 100%
1981 173 0.000050009 173 100%
1982 168 0.000047891 168 100%
1983 121 0.000034937 121 100%
1984 131 0.000037549 131 100%
1985 124 0.000034743 124 100%
1986 129 0.000036266 129 100%
1987 106 0.000029399 106 100%
1988 100 0.000027063 100 100%
1989 83 0.00002159 83 100%
1990 82 0.000020746 82 100%
1991 84 0.000021565 84 100%
1992 61 0.00001588 61 100%
1993 53 0.000014057 53 100%
1994 55 0.000014794 55 100%
1995 40 0.000010923 40 100%
1996 36 0.000009871 36 100%
1997 34 0.000009377 34 100%
1998 32 0.0000087 32 100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 100%
2000 26 0.000006878 26 100%
2001 28 0.00000748 28 100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 100%
2003 14 0.000003682 14 100%
2004 28 0.000007328 28 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 100%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 13 0.000003518 13 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2012 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 12 0.000003271 12 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2019 7 0.000002017 7 100%
2020 11 0.000003293 11 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 100%

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