Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shelvy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelvy” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelvy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelvy” 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
1925 8 0.000003429 8 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1936 36 0.000017328 36 100%
1937 50 0.000023467 44 6 76%
1938 43 0.000019434 37 6 72%
1939 38 0.000017246 33 5 74%
1940 36 0.000015634 30 6 67%
1941 22 0.00000903 17 5 55%
1942 22 0.000008053 16 6 45%
1943 12 0.000004251 12 100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 100%
1950 14 0.000003996 9 5 29%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1961 6 0.000001448 6 100%
1962 10 0.000002478 5 5 0%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 -100%

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