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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shellby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shellby” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shellby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shellby” 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
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 19 0.000004807 19 100%
1991 43 0.000011039 43 100%
1992 36 0.000009372 36 100%
1993 34 0.000009018 34 100%
1994 29 0.000007801 29 100%
1995 29 0.000007919 29 100%
1996 39 0.000010693 39 100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 100%
1998 26 0.000007069 26 100%
1999 19 0.000005144 19 100%
2000 21 0.000005556 21 100%
2001 21 0.00000561 21 100%
2002 17 0.000004548 17 100%
2003 25 0.000006575 25 100%
2004 22 0.000005758 22 100%
2005 13 0.000003381 13 100%
2006 11 0.00000278 11 100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 100%
2008 10 0.000002544 10 100%
2010 6 0.000001623 6 100%
2011 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 100%

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