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How popular is “Sherwood” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sherwood” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sherwood” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sherwood” 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
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 -100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 -100%
1910 20 0.000033858 20 -100%
1911 22 0.000034147 22 -100%
1912 34 0.000034411 34 -100%
1913 51 0.000044851 51 -100%
1914 66 0.000046599 66 -100%
1915 86 0.000046932 86 -100%
1916 77 0.000039805 77 -100%
1917 88 0.000043852 88 -100%
1918 84 0.00003869 84 -100%
1919 92 0.000043597 92 -100%
1920 97 0.00004287 97 -100%
1921 92 0.000039409 92 -100%
1922 91 0.000039753 91 -100%
1923 97 0.000042128 6 91 -88%
1924 105 0.000044088 105 -100%
1925 111 0.000047572 111 -100%
1926 109 0.000047476 109 -100%
1927 98 0.000042253 98 -100%
1928 117 0.000051748 117 -100%
1929 99 0.000045161 99 -100%
1930 89 0.000040031 89 -100%
1931 90 0.000042768 90 -100%
1932 88 0.000041681 88 -100%
1933 101 0.000050514 101 -100%
1934 92 0.000044299 92 -100%
1935 93 0.0000445 93 -100%
1936 103 0.000049577 103 -100%
1937 83 0.000038955 83 -100%
1938 120 0.000054235 120 -100%
1939 87 0.000039484 87 -100%
1940 118 0.000051245 118 -100%
1941 115 0.0000472 115 -100%
1942 101 0.000036972 101 -100%
1943 106 0.000037555 106 -100%
1944 101 0.000037545 101 -100%
1945 73 0.000027517 73 -100%
1946 96 0.000030044 96 -100%
1947 114 0.000031646 5 109 -91%
1948 79 0.000022882 79 -100%
1949 88 0.000025253 88 -100%
1950 88 0.000025119 88 -100%
1951 91 0.000024703 91 -100%
1952 89 0.000023433 89 -100%
1953 84 0.000021798 84 -100%
1954 84 0.000021102 84 -100%
1955 72 0.000017932 72 -100%
1956 94 0.000022799 94 -100%
1957 94 0.00002237 94 -100%
1958 84 0.00002032 84 -100%
1959 79 0.000019 79 -100%
1960 56 0.000013482 56 -100%
1961 46 0.000011105 46 -100%
1962 53 0.000013134 53 -100%
1963 58 0.000014653 58 -100%
1964 49 0.000012604 49 -100%
1965 47 0.000012964 47 -100%
1966 45 0.000012947 45 -100%
1967 37 0.000010899 37 -100%
1968 39 0.000011544 39 -100%
1969 34 0.000009783 34 -100%
1970 42 0.000011646 42 -100%
1971 33 0.000009614 33 -100%
1972 36 0.000011454 36 -100%
1973 30 0.000009944 30 -100%
1974 22 0.000007237 22 -100%
1975 19 0.000006293 19 -100%
1976 28 0.000009228 28 -100%
1977 31 0.000009759 31 -100%
1978 24 0.000007562 24 -100%
1979 21 0.000006312 21 -100%
1980 17 0.000004935 17 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 -100%
1983 17 0.000004909 17 -100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 -100%
1985 16 0.000004483 16 -100%
1986 16 0.000004498 16 -100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 -100%
1988 12 0.000003248 12 -100%
1989 21 0.000005462 21 -100%
1990 17 0.000004301 17 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 -100%
1993 14 0.000003713 14 -100%
1994 10 0.00000269 10 -100%
1995 10 0.000002731 10 -100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 6 0.000001631 6 -100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 -100%
2000 11 0.00000291 11 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2003 8 0.000002104 8 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 -100%
2015 5 0.000001351 5 -100%
2016 9 0.000002453 9 -100%
2017 5 0.000001398 5 -100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 -100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 -100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 -100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 -100%
2022 8 0.000002365 8 -100%
2023 6 0.000001812 6 -100%
2024 8 0.000002403 8 -100%

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