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How popular is “Shepard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shepard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shepard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shepard” 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
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1914 8 0.000005648 8 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 -100%
1918 15 0.000006909 15 -100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 -100%
1920 15 0.000006629 15 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 17 0.000007383 17 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 13 0.000005572 13 -100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 -100%
1927 12 0.000005174 12 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 14 0.000006297 14 -100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1934 12 0.000005778 12 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 -100%
1940 19 0.000008251 19 -100%
1941 11 0.000004515 11 -100%
1942 5 0.00000183 5 -100%
1943 10 0.000003543 10 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 -100%
1947 15 0.000004164 15 -100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 -100%
1952 8 0.000002106 8 -100%
1953 13 0.000003373 13 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 10 0.00000238 10 -100%
1958 12 0.000002903 12 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 -100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 -100%
1964 14 0.000003601 14 -100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1972 6 0.000001909 6 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 -100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 -100%
2002 15 0.000004013 15 -100%
2003 37 0.000009731 37 -100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 -100%
2005 31 0.000008063 31 -100%
2006 44 0.000011122 44 -100%
2007 31 0.000007754 31 -100%
2008 60 0.000015265 60 -100%
2009 67 0.000017538 67 -100%
2010 64 0.000017317 64 -100%
2011 57 0.000015583 57 -100%
2012 65 0.000017772 65 -100%
2013 64 0.000017555 5 59 -84%
2014 80 0.000021584 80 -100%
2015 116 0.000031344 116 -100%
2016 190 0.000051789 190 -100%
2017 228 0.000063755 228 -100%
2018 215 0.000061151 215 -100%
2019 202 0.000058198 202 -100%
2020 243 0.000072742 243 -100%
2021 233 0.000068773 233 -100%
2022 253 0.000074783 253 -100%
2023 237 0.000071575 237 -100%
2024 244 0.000073306 244 -100%

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