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How popular is “Sherill” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherill” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherill” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherill” 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
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 100%
1937 14 0.000006571 14 100%
1938 20 0.000009039 15 5 50%
1939 12 0.000005446 12 100%
1940 21 0.00000912 11 10 5%
1941 31 0.000012724 26 5 68%
1942 22 0.000008053 22 100%
1943 26 0.000009211 20 6 54%
1944 20 0.000007435 20 100%
1945 31 0.000011685 31 100%
1946 23 0.000007198 23 100%
1947 47 0.000013047 42 5 79%
1948 29 0.0000084 29 100%
1949 28 0.000008035 28 100%
1950 28 0.000007992 28 100%
1951 26 0.000007058 26 100%
1952 24 0.000006319 24 100%
1953 24 0.000006228 24 100%
1954 48 0.000012058 48 100%
1955 31 0.000007721 31 100%
1956 39 0.000009459 34 5 74%
1957 33 0.000007853 27 6 64%
1958 33 0.000007983 33 100%
1959 44 0.000010582 44 100%
1960 36 0.000008667 36 100%
1961 39 0.000009415 39 100%
1962 24 0.000005947 24 100%
1963 25 0.000006316 25 100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 100%
1965 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 100%
1968 27 0.000007992 27 100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1970 14 0.000003882 14 100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 100%
1978 11 0.000003466 11 100%
1979 13 0.000003907 13 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1984 5 0.000001433 5 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%

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