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How popular is “Sherry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherry” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherry” 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
1909 5 0.00000978 5 100%
1913 6 0.000005277 6 100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 12 0.000006203 12 100%
1917 13 0.000006478 13 100%
1918 26 0.000011975 26 100%
1919 14 0.000006634 14 100%
1920 29 0.000012817 24 5 66%
1921 37 0.000015849 37 100%
1922 40 0.000017474 40 100%
1923 53 0.000023019 46 7 74%
1924 56 0.000023514 47 9 68%
1925 72 0.000030858 67 5 86%
1926 73 0.000031796 64 9 75%
1927 81 0.000034923 81 100%
1928 81 0.000035826 75 6 85%
1929 79 0.000036037 74 5 87%
1930 104 0.000046778 91 13 75%
1931 98 0.000046569 98 100%
1932 133 0.000062995 125 8 88%
1933 132 0.000066018 126 6 91%
1934 199 0.00009582 191 8 92%
1935 449 0.000214843 436 13 94%
1936 585 0.000281578 568 17 94%
1937 659 0.000309292 648 11 97%
1938 682 0.000308238 674 8 98%
1939 751 0.00034083 739 12 97%
1940 872 0.000378688 857 15 97%
1941 1264 0.000518793 1252 12 98%
1942 1835 0.000671714 1818 17 98%
1943 2330 0.000825492 2314 16 99%
1944 2754 0.001023762 2733 21 98%
1945 2692 0.001014735 2676 16 99%
1946 4537 0.001419895 4518 19 99%
1947 5602 0.001555108 5579 23 99%
1948 5745 0.001664003 5717 28 99%
1949 5316 0.001525493 5295 21 99%
1950 5827 0.001663261 5808 19 99%
1951 5911 0.00160462 5889 22 99%
1952 5975 0.001573194 5956 19 99%
1953 5953 0.001544772 5935 18 99%
1954 7129 0.001790887 7120 9 100%
1955 7789 0.001939936 7769 20 99%
1956 7914 0.001919459 7898 16 100%
1957 7829 0.001863097 7805 24 99%
1958 6816 0.001648805 6801 15 100%
1959 7357 0.001769364 7341 16 100%
1960 8342 0.002008274 8316 26 99%
1961 8382 0.002023513 8359 23 99%
1962 9261 0.002294956 9223 38 99%
1963 9090 0.002296499 9064 26 99%
1964 8522 0.002192095 8496 26 99%
1965 7404 0.00204223 7381 23 99%
1966 7009 0.002016598 6983 26 99%
1967 7152 0.002106691 7130 22 99%
1968 6459 0.001911844 6435 24 99%
1969 6156 0.001771346 6139 17 99%
1970 5943 0.001647852 5917 26 99%
1971 5587 0.001627745 5562 25 99%
1972 4468 0.001421575 4447 21 99%
1973 3971 0.001316257 3952 19 99%
1974 3448 0.001134211 3436 12 99%
1975 3057 0.001012455 3044 13 99%
1976 2365 0.000779422 2359 6 99%
1977 2079 0.000654495 2071 8 99%
1978 1838 0.000579104 1825 13 99%
1979 1602 0.000481515 1591 11 99%
1980 1411 0.000409638 1404 7 99%
1981 1271 0.000367407 1266 5 99%
1982 1052 0.000299889 1047 5 99%
1983 938 0.000270837 929 9 98%
1984 885 0.000253672 879 6 99%
1985 830 0.000232551 822 8 98%
1986 678 0.000190606 672 6 98%
1987 574 0.000159196 567 7 98%
1988 548 0.000148307 548 100%
1989 454 0.000118092 449 5 98%
1990 399 0.000100949 399 100%
1991 358 0.000091906 353 5 97%
1992 305 0.000079401 305 100%
1993 313 0.000083018 313 100%
1994 244 0.000065633 244 100%
1995 203 0.000055432 203 100%
1996 161 0.000044144 161 100%
1997 166 0.000045784 166 100%
1998 142 0.000038606 142 100%
1999 114 0.000030862 114 100%
2000 126 0.000033334 126 100%
2001 114 0.000030454 114 100%
2002 126 0.000033705 126 100%
2003 113 0.000029719 113 100%
2004 104 0.000027219 104 100%
2005 89 0.000023148 89 100%
2006 91 0.000023002 91 100%
2007 95 0.000023764 95 100%
2008 77 0.00001959 77 100%
2009 77 0.000020156 77 100%
2010 64 0.000017317 64 100%
2011 69 0.000018864 69 100%
2012 72 0.000019686 72 100%
2013 63 0.000017281 63 100%
2014 63 0.000016998 63 100%
2015 78 0.000021076 78 100%
2016 53 0.000014447 53 100%
2017 66 0.000018455 66 100%
2018 46 0.000013083 46 100%
2019 44 0.000012677 44 100%
2020 42 0.000012573 42 100%
2021 28 0.000008265 28 100%
2022 38 0.000011232 38 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 16 0.000004807 16 100%

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