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How popular is “Sherryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherryl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherryl” 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
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 12 0.000005632 12 100%
1938 28 0.000012655 28 100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 100%
1940 28 0.00001216 28 100%
1941 42 0.000017238 42 100%
1942 49 0.000017937 49 100%
1943 71 0.000025154 71 100%
1944 104 0.000038661 104 100%
1945 140 0.000052772 140 100%
1946 209 0.000065408 204 5 95%
1947 161 0.000044693 161 100%
1948 161 0.000046633 161 100%
1949 148 0.00004247 148 100%
1950 170 0.000048525 170 100%
1951 184 0.000049949 184 100%
1952 125 0.000032912 125 100%
1953 171 0.000044374 171 100%
1954 164 0.000041199 164 100%
1955 189 0.000047073 189 100%
1956 166 0.000040262 166 100%
1957 207 0.000049261 207 100%
1958 152 0.000036769 152 100%
1959 119 0.00002862 119 100%
1960 133 0.000032019 133 100%
1961 118 0.000028487 118 100%
1962 156 0.000038658 156 100%
1963 126 0.000031833 126 100%
1964 93 0.000023922 93 100%
1965 87 0.000023997 87 100%
1966 72 0.000020716 72 100%
1967 104 0.000030634 104 100%
1968 58 0.000017168 58 100%
1969 44 0.000012661 44 100%
1970 53 0.000014696 53 100%
1971 34 0.000009906 34 100%
1972 29 0.000009227 29 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 100%
1975 8 0.00000265 8 100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 16 0.000005037 16 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 11 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1990 7 0.000001771 7 100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%

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