Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shelvie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelvie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelvie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelvie” 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
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1936 32 0.000015403 32 100%
1937 64 0.000030037 64 100%
1938 41 0.00001853 41 100%
1939 25 0.000011346 25 100%
1940 27 0.000011725 27 100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 100%
1943 9 0.000003189 9 100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1947 10 0.000002776 10 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%

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