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How popular is “Sheri” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheri” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheri” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheri” 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
1928 7 0.000003096 7 100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 100%
1935 14 0.000006699 14 100%
1936 23 0.000011071 23 100%
1937 18 0.000008448 18 100%
1938 23 0.000010395 23 100%
1939 43 0.000019515 43 100%
1940 36 0.000015634 36 100%
1941 68 0.00002791 68 100%
1942 105 0.000038436 105 100%
1943 154 0.00005456 154 100%
1944 157 0.000058363 157 100%
1945 168 0.000063327 168 100%
1946 294 0.00009201 294 100%
1947 348 0.000096604 348 100%
1948 364 0.00010543 364 100%
1949 341 0.000097854 341 100%
1950 413 0.000117887 413 100%
1951 483 0.000131117 483 100%
1952 535 0.000140863 535 100%
1953 713 0.00018502 713 100%
1954 935 0.000234883 935 100%
1955 1144 0.000284926 1144 100%
1956 1721 0.000417411 1716 5 99%
1957 1588 0.000377902 1588 100%
1958 1600 0.000387043 1600 100%
1959 1853 0.000445648 1846 7 99%
1960 2216 0.000533485 2210 6 99%
1961 2488 0.000600632 2488 100%
1962 2988 0.000740452 2988 100%
1963 3107 0.000784953 3094 13 99%
1964 2921 0.000751362 2921 100%
1965 2636 0.000727082 2628 8 99%
1966 2725 0.000784025 2720 5 100%
1967 2965 0.00087337 2959 6 100%
1968 2731 0.000808368 2718 13 99%
1969 2610 0.000751009 2601 9 99%
1970 2412 0.00066879 2400 12 99%
1971 2152 0.000626975 2144 8 99%
1972 1932 0.0006147 1923 9 99%
1973 1672 0.000554214 1667 5 99%
1974 1428 0.000469737 1428 100%
1975 1159 0.000383852 1151 8 99%
1976 1094 0.000360544 1094 100%
1977 983 0.000309461 983 100%
1978 852 0.000268442 852 100%
1979 755 0.000226931 755 100%
1980 708 0.000205545 708 100%
1981 618 0.000178645 618 100%
1982 515 0.000146809 515 100%
1983 480 0.000138595 480 100%
1984 517 0.00014819 517 100%
1985 470 0.000131685 470 100%
1986 385 0.000108235 385 100%
1987 308 0.000085422 308 100%
1988 257 0.000069553 257 100%
1989 187 0.000048642 187 100%
1990 180 0.000045541 180 100%
1991 143 0.000036711 143 100%
1992 113 0.000029417 113 100%
1993 100 0.000026523 100 100%
1994 81 0.000021788 81 100%
1995 59 0.000016111 59 100%
1996 45 0.000012338 45 100%
1997 38 0.000010481 38 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 100%
2000 28 0.000007408 28 100%
2001 33 0.000008816 33 100%
2002 24 0.00000642 24 100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 100%
2004 23 0.000006019 23 100%
2005 16 0.000004161 16 100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 20 0.000005088 20 100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 8 0.000002305 8 100%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 100%
2022 7 0.000002069 7 100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 100%

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