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How popular is “Sherrilyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherrilyn” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherrilyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherrilyn” 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
1939 5 0.000002269 5 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 100%
1943 13 0.000004606 13 100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 100%
1945 17 0.000006408 17 100%
1946 27 0.00000845 27 100%
1947 31 0.000008606 31 100%
1948 22 0.000006372 22 100%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 100%
1953 20 0.00000519 20 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 21 0.00000523 21 100%
1956 22 0.000005336 22 100%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1959 18 0.000004329 18 100%
1960 21 0.000005056 21 100%
1961 28 0.00000676 28 100%
1962 37 0.000009169 37 100%
1963 35 0.000008842 35 100%
1964 27 0.000006945 27 100%
1965 16 0.000004413 16 100%
1966 17 0.000004891 17 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1968 11 0.000003256 11 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 100%
1972 17 0.000005409 17 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 10 0.000003289 10 100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 6 0.000001687 6 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 100%

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