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How popular is “Sherra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherra” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherra” 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
1937 7 0.000003285 7 100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1943 22 0.000007794 22 100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 100%
1950 17 0.000004852 17 100%
1951 12 0.000003258 12 100%
1952 19 0.000005003 19 100%
1953 17 0.000004411 17 100%
1954 21 0.000005275 21 100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 100%
1956 13 0.000003153 13 100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 100%
1958 21 0.00000508 21 100%
1959 19 0.00000457 19 100%
1960 22 0.000005296 22 100%
1961 24 0.000005794 24 100%
1962 14 0.000003469 14 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 19 0.000004887 19 100%
1965 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 18 0.000005328 18 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 28 0.000007764 28 100%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 17 0.000005635 17 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 22 0.000007286 22 100%
1976 19 0.000006262 19 100%
1977 28 0.000008815 28 100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 100%
1979 24 0.000007214 24 100%
1980 18 0.000005226 18 100%
1981 18 0.000005203 18 100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 100%
1983 21 0.000006064 21 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 19 0.000005323 19 100%
1986 26 0.000007309 26 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%

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