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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sherard” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherard” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherard” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherard” 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
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 -100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 -100%
1971 21 0.000006118 21 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 19 0.000006298 19 -100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 -100%
1975 24 0.000007949 24 -100%
1976 15 0.000004943 15 -100%
1977 17 0.000005352 17 -100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 -100%
1979 16 0.000004809 16 -100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 -100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 -100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 -100%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 -100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 11 0.000003092 11 -100%
1987 24 0.000006656 24 -100%
1988 24 0.000006495 24 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 -100%
1991 18 0.000004621 18 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1996 15 0.000004113 15 -100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 -100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2002 11 0.000002943 11 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 -100%
2008 8 0.000002035 8 -100%
2009 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2014 5 0.000001349 5 -100%

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