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How popular is “Shermaine” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shermaine” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shermaine” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shermaine” 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
1947 6 0.000001666 6 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 11 0.000002763 11 100%
1955 12 0.000002989 12 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1962 8 0.000001982 8 100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1967 9 0.000002651 9 100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 100%
1973 28 0.000009281 20 8 43%
1974 30 0.000009868 21 9 40%
1975 23 0.000007617 14 9 22%
1976 24 0.00000791 15 9 25%
1977 30 0.000009444 15 15 0%
1978 29 0.000009137 11 18 -24%
1979 31 0.000009318 20 11 29%
1980 43 0.000012484 23 20 7%
1981 28 0.000008094 17 11 21%
1982 27 0.000007697 12 15 -11%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 12 11 4%
1986 14 0.000003936 7 7 0%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 100%
1990 24 0.000006072 16 8 33%
1991 15 0.000003851 15 100%
1992 29 0.00000755 23 6 59%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 21 0.000005649 21 100%
1995 16 0.000004369 11 5 38%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%
1998 13 0.000003534 13 100%
2000 5 0.000001323 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%

Explore other names

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  2. Sherlyne
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  4. Sherma
  5. Shermain
  6. Shermaine (this page)
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  8. Shermane
  9. Shermar
  10. Shermeka
  11. Shermia