How popular is “Shemeka” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Shemeka” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Shemeka” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1971	9	0.000002622	9	100%
1972	24	0.000007636	24	100%
1973	23	0.000007624	23	100%
1974	41	0.000013487	41	100%
1975	49	0.000016228	49	100%
1976	79	0.000026036	79	100%
1977	83	0.000026129	83	100%
1978	122	0.000038439	122	100%
1979	131	0.000039375	131	100%
1980	122	0.000035419	122	100%
1981	120	0.000034688	120	100%
1982	135	0.000038484	135	100%
1983	90	0.000025986	90	100%
1984	85	0.000024364	85	100%
1985	85	0.000023815	85	100%
1986	71	0.00001996	71	100%
1987	45	0.000012481	45	100%
1988	45	0.000012178	45	100%
1989	41	0.000010665	41	100%
1990	39	0.000009867	39	100%
1991	31	0.000007958	31	100%
1992	25	0.000006508	25	100%
1993	18	0.000004774	18	100%
1994	13	0.000003497	13	100%
1995	10	0.000002731	10	100%
1996	7	0.000001919	7	100%
1997	8	0.000002206	8	100%
2000	6	0.000001587	6	100%
2003	6	0.000001578	6	100%

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