Name Trends

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How popular is “Shelsea” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelsea” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelsea” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelsea” 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
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1989 20 0.000005202 20 100%
1990 18 0.000004554 18 100%
1991 26 0.000006675 26 100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 100%
1993 25 0.000006631 25 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 23 0.00000628 23 100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 100%
1997 36 0.000009929 36 100%
1998 27 0.000007341 27 100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 100%
2000 34 0.000008995 34 100%
2001 24 0.000006411 24 100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 100%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 23 0.000005982 23 100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 100%
2010 31 0.000008388 31 100%
2011 22 0.000006015 22 100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 100%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 100%
2014 12 0.000003238 12 100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 100%
2018 7 0.000001991 7 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 100%
2024 7 0.000002103 7 100%

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