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How popular is “Sherril” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherril” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherril” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherril” 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
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1933 13 0.000006502 6 7 -8%
1934 20 0.00000963 11 9 10%
1935 19 0.000009091 14 5 47%
1936 17 0.000008183 10 7 18%
1937 34 0.000015957 23 11 35%
1938 35 0.000015819 26 9 49%
1939 22 0.000009984 22 100%
1940 25 0.000010857 18 7 44%
1941 28 0.000011492 20 8 43%
1942 37 0.000013544 32 5 73%
1943 53 0.000018777 42 11 58%
1944 34 0.000012639 34 100%
1945 54 0.000020355 46 8 70%
1946 50 0.000015648 45 5 80%
1947 77 0.000021375 71 6 84%
1948 65 0.000018827 65 100%
1949 68 0.000019513 61 7 79%
1950 58 0.000016556 53 5 83%
1951 57 0.000015473 57 100%
1952 46 0.000012112 41 5 78%
1953 82 0.000021279 77 5 88%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 100%
1955 70 0.000017434 70 100%
1956 64 0.000015523 64 100%
1957 69 0.00001642 69 100%
1958 69 0.000016691 69 100%
1959 55 0.000013228 55 100%
1960 55 0.000013241 55 100%
1961 57 0.00001376 57 100%
1962 48 0.000011895 48 100%
1963 44 0.000011116 44 100%
1964 49 0.000012604 49 100%
1965 29 0.000007999 29 100%
1966 21 0.000006042 21 100%
1967 36 0.000010604 36 100%
1968 20 0.00000592 20 100%
1969 14 0.000004028 14 100%
1970 17 0.000004714 17 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%

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