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How popular is “Sherly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherly” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherly” 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
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 10 0.000002414 10 100%
1962 12 0.000002974 12 100%
1963 14 0.000003537 14 100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 100%
1967 15 0.000004418 15 100%
1968 12 0.000003552 12 100%
1969 8 0.000002302 8 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1971 9 0.000002622 9 100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 100%
1974 9 0.000002961 9 100%
1975 12 0.000003974 12 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 18 0.000005131 18 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 16 0.000004048 16 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 9 0.000002387 9 100%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 100%
1995 14 0.000003823 14 100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 100%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 100%
2001 24 0.000006411 24 100%
2002 28 0.00000749 28 100%
2003 33 0.000008679 33 100%
2004 37 0.000009684 37 100%
2005 33 0.000008583 33 100%
2006 32 0.000008089 32 100%
2007 40 0.000010006 40 100%
2008 50 0.00001272 50 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 25 0.000006765 25 100%
2011 25 0.000006835 25 100%
2012 27 0.000007382 27 100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 15 0.000004089 15 100%
2017 12 0.000003356 12 100%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 100%
2019 14 0.000004033 14 100%
2020 18 0.000005388 18 100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 100%
2022 17 0.000005025 17 100%
2023 29 0.000008758 29 100%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 100%

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