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How popular is “Shelli” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelli” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelli” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelli” 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
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1948 7 0.000002028 7 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 100%
1951 27 0.00000733 27 100%
1952 29 0.000007636 29 100%
1953 38 0.000009861 38 100%
1954 47 0.000011807 47 100%
1955 44 0.000010959 44 100%
1956 49 0.000011884 49 100%
1957 70 0.000016658 70 100%
1958 100 0.00002419 100 100%
1959 123 0.000029582 123 100%
1960 191 0.000045982 191 100%
1961 230 0.000055525 230 100%
1962 281 0.000069634 281 100%
1963 361 0.000091203 361 100%
1964 386 0.00009929 386 100%
1965 310 0.000085507 310 100%
1966 333 0.000095809 333 100%
1967 368 0.000108398 368 100%
1968 396 0.000117215 396 100%
1969 361 0.000103875 361 100%
1970 321 0.000089006 321 100%
1971 364 0.00010605 364 100%
1972 295 0.00009386 295 100%
1973 230 0.000076238 230 100%
1974 212 0.000069737 212 100%
1975 185 0.000061271 185 100%
1976 133 0.000043832 133 100%
1977 152 0.000047851 152 100%
1978 134 0.00004222 134 100%
1979 123 0.00003697 123 100%
1980 131 0.000038032 131 100%
1981 93 0.000026883 93 100%
1982 109 0.000031072 109 100%
1983 99 0.000028585 99 100%
1984 65 0.000018631 65 100%
1985 81 0.000022695 81 100%
1986 63 0.000017711 63 100%
1987 47 0.000013035 47 100%
1988 47 0.00001272 47 100%
1989 34 0.000008844 34 100%
1990 36 0.000009108 36 100%
1991 41 0.000010526 41 100%
1992 32 0.000008331 32 100%
1993 32 0.000008487 32 100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%

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