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How popular is “Sheng” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheng” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheng” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheng” 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
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 100%
1982 20 0.000005701 20 100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 100%
1984 12 0.00000344 12 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 23 6 59%
1986 25 0.000007028 25 100%
1987 12 0.000003328 12 100%
1988 22 0.000005954 22 100%
1989 28 0.000007283 28 100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 100%
1991 27 0.000006931 27 100%
1992 26 0.000006769 21 5 62%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 10 0.000002742 10 100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 9 0.000002436 9 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 100%
2003 6 0.000001578 6 100%
2004 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2006 5 0.000001264 5 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 -100%

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