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How popular is “Shelly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelly” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelly” 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
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1889 8 0.000027687 8 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1893 9 0.000027673 9 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1897 8 0.000023058 8 -100%
1898 7 0.000018351 7 -100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 -100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 -100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 -100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 15 0.000008186 15 -100%
1916 23 0.00001189 5 18 -57%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 -100%
1918 23 0.000010594 23 -100%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 -100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 -100%
1921 16 0.000006854 16 -100%
1922 23 0.000010047 6 17 -48%
1923 37 0.00001607 8 29 -57%
1924 41 0.000017215 9 32 -56%
1925 22 0.000009429 22 -100%
1926 31 0.000013502 5 26 -68%
1927 32 0.000013797 12 20 -25%
1928 44 0.000019461 7 37 -68%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 -100%
1930 31 0.000013943 6 25 -61%
1931 26 0.000012355 10 16 -23%
1932 40 0.000018946 17 23 -15%
1933 21 0.000010503 6 15 -43%
1934 42 0.000020223 17 25 -19%
1935 45 0.000021532 18 27 -20%
1936 50 0.000024066 19 31 -24%
1937 61 0.000028629 31 30 2%
1938 57 0.000025762 31 26 9%
1939 64 0.000029045 39 25 22%
1940 65 0.000028228 36 29 11%
1941 63 0.000025858 35 28 11%
1942 88 0.000032213 57 31 30%
1943 100 0.000035429 66 34 32%
1944 82 0.000030482 52 30 27%
1945 110 0.000041464 74 36 35%
1946 93 0.000029105 71 22 53%
1947 107 0.000029703 74 33 38%
1948 138 0.000039971 102 36 48%
1949 217 0.000062271 181 36 67%
1950 388 0.000110751 333 55 72%
1951 446 0.000121073 407 39 83%
1952 580 0.000152712 539 41 86%
1953 603 0.000156475 571 32 89%
1954 800 0.000200969 759 41 90%
1955 806 0.000200743 786 20 95%
1956 962 0.000233323 929 33 93%
1957 1248 0.000296991 1211 37 94%
1958 1412 0.000341566 1378 34 95%
1959 1909 0.000459116 1883 26 97%
1960 2730 0.000657227 2691 39 97%
1961 3034 0.000732443 2995 39 97%
1962 3510 0.000869808 3480 30 98%
1963 3820 0.000965085 3789 31 98%
1964 4128 0.001061836 4081 47 98%
1965 3894 0.001074074 3850 44 98%
1966 3886 0.001118063 3856 30 98%
1967 3675 0.001082507 3648 27 99%
1968 3637 0.001076541 3595 42 98%
1969 3712 0.001068102 3676 36 98%
1970 3789 0.001050599 3751 38 98%
1971 3668 0.001068654 3637 31 98%
1972 3326 0.001058227 3288 38 98%
1973 2947 0.000976835 2910 37 97%
1974 2827 0.000929934 2797 30 98%
1975 2511 0.000831624 2484 27 98%
1976 1886 0.00062156 1861 25 97%
1977 1864 0.00058681 1848 16 98%
1978 1528 0.000481431 1501 27 96%
1979 1477 0.000443943 1456 21 97%
1980 1463 0.000424734 1451 12 98%
1981 1237 0.000357579 1228 9 99%
1982 1150 0.000327826 1137 13 98%
1983 1081 0.000312127 1073 8 99%
1984 958 0.000274597 949 9 98%
1985 890 0.000249362 884 6 99%
1986 751 0.000211128 744 7 98%
1987 629 0.00017445 629 100%
1988 544 0.000147224 537 7 97%
1989 479 0.000124595 466 13 95%
1990 421 0.000106515 413 8 96%
1991 439 0.000112701 433 6 97%
1992 348 0.000090595 348 100%
1993 314 0.000083283 307 7 96%
1994 287 0.000077199 281 6 96%
1995 240 0.000065535 240 100%
1996 224 0.000061417 217 7 94%
1997 166 0.000045784 166 100%
1998 168 0.000045674 168 100%
1999 158 0.000042774 158 100%
2000 147 0.00003889 147 100%
2001 130 0.000034728 125 5 92%
2002 123 0.000032903 123 100%
2003 114 0.000029982 114 100%
2004 100 0.000026172 100 100%
2005 109 0.00002835 109 100%
2006 89 0.000022496 89 100%
2007 78 0.000019511 73 5 87%
2008 69 0.000017554 69 100%
2009 80 0.000020941 80 100%
2010 57 0.000015423 57 100%
2011 39 0.000010662 39 100%
2012 52 0.000014218 52 100%
2013 52 0.000014264 52 100%
2014 50 0.00001349 50 100%
2015 45 0.000012159 45 100%
2016 36 0.000009813 36 100%
2017 34 0.000009507 34 100%
2018 29 0.000008248 29 100%
2019 29 0.000008355 29 100%
2020 25 0.000007484 25 100%
2021 30 0.000008855 30 100%
2022 28 0.000008276 28 100%
2023 20 0.00000604 20 100%
2024 30 0.000009013 30 100%

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