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How popular is “Shelton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelton” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelton” 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
1880 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 -100%
1885 8 0.000033215 8 -100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 -100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 -100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 7 0.000015547 7 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 7 0.0000181 7 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1904 11 0.000027262 11 -100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 -100%
1907 6 0.000012892 6 -100%
1908 18 0.000036836 18 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 26 0.000044015 26 -100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 -100%
1912 23 0.000023278 23 -100%
1913 36 0.000031659 36 -100%
1914 51 0.000036008 51 -100%
1915 58 0.000031652 58 -100%
1916 45 0.000023263 45 -100%
1917 77 0.000038371 77 -100%
1918 78 0.000035926 78 -100%
1919 77 0.000036489 77 -100%
1920 79 0.000034915 79 -100%
1921 84 0.000035982 84 -100%
1922 78 0.000034074 78 -100%
1923 62 0.000026927 62 -100%
1924 98 0.000041149 98 -100%
1925 81 0.000034715 81 -100%
1926 72 0.00003136 72 -100%
1927 85 0.000036648 85 -100%
1928 66 0.000029191 66 -100%
1929 72 0.000032844 72 -100%
1930 67 0.000030136 67 -100%
1931 53 0.000025185 53 -100%
1932 74 0.00003505 74 -100%
1933 72 0.00003601 72 -100%
1934 77 0.000037076 77 -100%
1935 97 0.000046414 97 -100%
1936 94 0.000045245 94 -100%
1937 115 0.000053974 115 -100%
1938 91 0.000041129 91 -100%
1939 94 0.000042661 94 -100%
1940 100 0.000043428 100 -100%
1941 119 0.000048842 119 -100%
1942 103 0.000037704 103 -100%
1943 106 0.000037555 5 101 -91%
1944 106 0.000039404 106 -100%
1945 106 0.000039956 106 -100%
1946 88 0.00002754 88 -100%
1947 121 0.000033589 121 -100%
1948 132 0.000038233 132 -100%
1949 136 0.000039027 5 131 -93%
1950 124 0.000035395 124 -100%
1951 124 0.000033661 124 -100%
1952 125 0.000032912 125 -100%
1953 129 0.000033475 129 -100%
1954 127 0.000031904 127 -100%
1955 147 0.000036612 147 -100%
1956 150 0.000036381 150 -100%
1957 130 0.000030937 130 -100%
1958 161 0.000038946 161 -100%
1959 144 0.000034632 144 -100%
1960 147 0.000035389 147 -100%
1961 141 0.000034039 141 -100%
1962 142 0.000035189 142 -100%
1963 158 0.000039917 7 151 -91%
1964 160 0.000041156 5 155 -94%
1965 156 0.000043029 156 -100%
1966 158 0.000045459 8 150 -90%
1967 142 0.000041827 142 -100%
1968 138 0.000040848 138 -100%
1969 168 0.000048341 7 161 -92%
1970 142 0.000039373 142 -100%
1971 166 0.000048363 166 -100%
1972 185 0.000058861 6 179 -94%
1973 138 0.000045743 5 133 -93%
1974 144 0.000047368 144 -100%
1975 174 0.000057627 6 168 -93%
1976 155 0.000051083 155 -100%
1977 141 0.000044389 141 -100%
1978 136 0.00004285 136 -100%
1979 153 0.000045987 6 147 -92%
1980 128 0.000037161 7 121 -89%
1981 123 0.000035556 123 -100%
1982 118 0.000033638 118 -100%
1983 116 0.000033494 116 -100%
1984 116 0.00003325 116 -100%
1985 117 0.000032781 117 -100%
1986 112 0.000031487 8 104 -86%
1987 137 0.000037996 5 132 -93%
1988 150 0.000040595 150 -100%
1989 154 0.000040058 5 149 -94%
1990 155 0.000039216 155 -100%
1991 165 0.000042359 5 160 -94%
1992 145 0.000037748 145 -100%
1993 166 0.000044029 7 159 -92%
1994 145 0.000039003 8 137 -89%
1995 129 0.000035225 6 123 -91%
1996 138 0.000037837 7 131 -90%
1997 133 0.000036682 9 124 -86%
1998 120 0.000032625 8 112 -87%
1999 112 0.000030321 112 -100%
2000 114 0.000030159 8 106 -86%
2001 100 0.000026714 7 93 -86%
2002 115 0.000030763 6 109 -90%
2003 108 0.000028404 108 -100%
2004 103 0.000026957 103 -100%
2005 95 0.000024708 95 -100%
2006 98 0.000024771 98 -100%
2007 89 0.000022263 6 83 -87%
2008 78 0.000019844 5 73 -87%
2009 66 0.000017277 66 -100%
2010 60 0.000016235 60 -100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 -100%
2012 62 0.000016952 62 -100%
2013 63 0.000017281 5 58 -84%
2014 55 0.000014839 55 -100%
2015 62 0.000016753 62 -100%
2016 40 0.000010903 40 -100%
2017 47 0.000013142 47 -100%
2018 25 0.000007111 25 -100%
2019 31 0.000008931 31 -100%
2020 32 0.000009579 32 -100%
2021 29 0.00000856 29 -100%
2022 24 0.000007094 24 -100%
2023 25 0.00000755 25 -100%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 -100%

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