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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shell” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shell” 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
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1952 12 0.00000316 7 5 17%
1953 8 0.000002076 8 100%
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 12 0.000002903 7 5 17%
1959 19 0.00000457 7 12 -26%
1960 23 0.000005537 12 11 4%
1961 20 0.000004828 12 8 20%
1962 9 0.00000223 9 100%
1963 31 0.000007832 15 16 -3%
1964 20 0.000005145 9 11 -10%
1965 28 0.000007723 16 12 14%
1966 19 0.000005467 12 7 26%
1967 16 0.000004713 9 7 13%
1968 15 0.00000444 7 8 -7%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 17 0.000004953 11 6 29%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%

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