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How popular is “Sherlyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherlyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherlyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherlyn” 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
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 28 0.000010409 28 100%
1945 24 0.000009047 24 100%
1946 60 0.000018778 60 100%
1947 53 0.000014713 53 100%
1948 56 0.00001622 56 100%
1949 55 0.000015783 55 100%
1950 68 0.00001941 68 100%
1951 60 0.000016288 60 100%
1952 45 0.000011848 45 100%
1953 44 0.000011418 44 100%
1954 53 0.000013314 53 100%
1955 53 0.0000132 53 100%
1956 55 0.00001334 55 100%
1957 46 0.000010947 46 100%
1958 38 0.000009192 38 100%
1959 44 0.000010582 44 100%
1960 34 0.000008185 34 100%
1961 41 0.000009898 41 100%
1962 40 0.000009912 40 100%
1963 44 0.000011116 44 100%
1964 41 0.000010546 41 100%
1965 52 0.000014343 52 100%
1966 35 0.00001007 35 100%
1967 34 0.000010015 34 100%
1968 41 0.000012136 41 100%
1969 31 0.00000892 31 100%
1970 33 0.00000915 33 100%
1971 23 0.000006701 23 100%
1972 19 0.000006045 19 100%
1973 24 0.000007955 24 100%
1974 18 0.000005921 18 100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 100%
1976 11 0.000003625 11 100%
1977 13 0.000004093 13 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 17 0.00000511 17 100%
1980 16 0.000004645 16 100%
1981 12 0.000003469 12 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 10 0.000002706 10 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 12 0.000003036 12 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 21 100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 100%
2000 23 0.000006085 23 100%
2001 56 0.00001496 56 100%
2002 82 0.000021935 82 100%
2003 261 0.000068642 261 100%
2004 487 0.000127456 487 100%
2005 377 0.000098053 377 100%
2006 895 0.000226228 887 8 98%
2007 476 0.000119069 476 100%
2008 465 0.000118301 465 100%
2009 556 0.000145543 556 100%
2010 472 0.000127715 472 100%
2011 302 0.000082563 302 100%
2012 445 0.000121672 445 100%
2013 423 0.000116028 423 100%
2014 305 0.000082291 305 100%
2015 222 0.000059985 222 100%
2016 227 0.000061875 227 100%
2017 216 0.000060399 216 100%
2018 147 0.00004181 147 100%
2019 159 0.000045809 159 100%
2020 158 0.000047297 158 100%
2021 128 0.000037781 128 100%
2022 145 0.00004286 145 100%
2023 121 0.000036543 121 100%
2024 99 0.000029743 99 100%

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