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How popular is “Shenandoah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shenandoah” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shenandoah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shenandoah” 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
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 -100%
1968 11 0.000003256 5 6 -9%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 7 7 0%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1972 19 0.000006045 11 8 16%
1973 16 0.000005303 7 9 -13%
1974 19 0.00000625 10 9 5%
1975 23 0.000007617 15 8 30%
1976 18 0.000005932 7 11 -22%
1977 20 0.000006296 13 7 30%
1978 14 0.000004411 9 5 29%
1979 13 0.000003907 8 5 23%
1980 13 0.000003774 13 100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 13 0.000003448 8 5 23%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 100%
1995 18 0.000004915 18 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 10 0.000002646 10 100%
2001 7 0.00000187 7 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 7 0.000001751 7 100%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 100%

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