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How popular is “Sherrill” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherrill” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherrill” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherrill” 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
1912 14 0.000014169 14 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 -100%
1915 16 0.000008732 5 11 -38%
1916 22 0.000011373 5 17 -55%
1917 19 0.000009468 19 -100%
1918 21 0.000009672 21 -100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 -100%
1920 11 0.000004862 11 -100%
1921 18 0.00000771 18 -100%
1922 21 0.000009174 21 -100%
1923 24 0.000010424 5 19 -58%
1924 25 0.000010497 25 -100%
1925 35 0.000015 10 25 -43%
1926 25 0.000010889 6 19 -52%
1927 26 0.00001121 26 -100%
1928 36 0.000015923 6 30 -67%
1929 44 0.000020072 12 32 -45%
1930 44 0.000019791 9 35 -59%
1931 67 0.000031838 20 47 -40%
1932 71 0.000033629 18 53 -49%
1933 76 0.000038011 37 39 -3%
1934 90 0.000043336 53 37 18%
1935 154 0.000073688 95 59 23%
1936 207 0.000099635 133 74 29%
1937 159 0.000074624 107 52 35%
1938 194 0.000087681 138 56 42%
1939 207 0.000093944 153 54 48%
1940 250 0.000108569 197 53 58%
1941 247 0.000101378 186 61 51%
1942 265 0.000097005 202 63 52%
1943 278 0.000098492 207 71 49%
1944 316 0.000117469 262 54 66%
1945 254 0.000095744 206 48 62%
1946 299 0.000093575 250 49 67%
1947 334 0.000092718 284 50 70%
1948 320 0.000092686 274 46 71%
1949 282 0.000080923 244 38 73%
1950 271 0.000077354 233 38 72%
1951 254 0.000068952 218 36 72%
1952 220 0.000057925 182 38 65%
1953 248 0.000064355 219 29 77%
1954 227 0.000057025 203 24 79%
1955 262 0.000065254 232 30 77%
1956 262 0.000063545 229 33 75%
1957 236 0.000056162 211 25 79%
1958 215 0.000052009 181 34 68%
1959 209 0.000050265 188 21 80%
1960 192 0.000046223 168 24 75%
1961 183 0.000044178 160 23 75%
1962 149 0.000036923 138 11 85%
1963 148 0.000037391 129 19 74%
1964 135 0.000034726 121 14 79%
1965 115 0.00003172 100 15 74%
1966 83 0.00002388 70 13 69%
1967 84 0.000024743 69 15 64%
1968 91 0.000026936 76 15 67%
1969 72 0.000020717 63 9 75%
1970 76 0.000021073 66 10 74%
1971 55 0.000016024 44 11 60%
1972 57 0.000018136 52 5 82%
1973 44 0.000014585 34 10 55%
1974 37 0.000012171 32 5 73%
1975 40 0.000013248 29 11 45%
1976 20 0.000006591 20 100%
1977 33 0.000010389 28 5 70%
1978 24 0.000007562 24 100%
1979 32 0.000009618 27 5 69%
1980 32 0.00000929 32 100%
1981 25 0.000007227 25 100%
1982 24 0.000006842 24 100%
1983 25 0.000007218 25 100%
1984 21 0.000006019 21 100%
1985 23 0.000006444 23 100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 100%
1987 16 0.000004438 16 100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 20 0.000005134 15 5 50%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 100%
1993 7 0.000001857 7 100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 100%
1997 8 0.000002206 8 100%

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