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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sheryl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheryl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheryl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheryl” 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
1921 7 0.000002998 7 100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 100%
1924 6 0.000002519 6 100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 10 0.000004312 10 100%
1928 10 0.000004423 10 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%
1931 12 0.000005702 12 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 24 0.000012003 24 100%
1934 31 0.000014927 31 100%
1935 32 0.000015312 32 100%
1936 57 0.000027436 57 100%
1937 82 0.000038486 77 5 88%
1938 154 0.000069602 154 100%
1939 135 0.000061268 135 100%
1940 155 0.000067313 155 100%
1941 195 0.000080035 195 100%
1942 324 0.000118602 324 100%
1943 593 0.000210093 588 5 98%
1944 959 0.000356495 950 9 98%
1945 1062 0.000400315 1055 7 99%
1946 1643 0.000514192 1632 11 99%
1947 1848 0.000513002 1835 13 99%
1948 2016 0.000583922 2008 8 99%
1949 1980 0.000568186 1971 9 99%
1950 2115 0.000603707 2110 5 100%
1951 1940 0.000526639 1935 5 99%
1952 2248 0.00059189 2242 6 99%
1953 2406 0.000624344 2399 7 99%
1954 2937 0.000737808 2930 7 100%
1955 3412 0.000849796 3412 100%
1956 3899 0.000945662 3891 8 100%
1957 4143 0.000985926 4132 11 99%
1958 3797 0.000918502 3792 5 100%
1959 3547 0.000853056 3540 7 100%
1960 3064 0.000737635 3054 10 99%
1961 3130 0.000755619 3124 6 100%
1962 3242 0.000803396 3242 100%
1963 3113 0.000786469 3105 8 99%
1964 2962 0.000761909 2957 5 100%
1965 2535 0.000699224 2535 100%
1966 2220 0.000638729 2212 8 99%
1967 2250 0.000662759 2240 10 99%
1968 1893 0.000560322 1885 8 99%
1969 1704 0.000490314 1704 100%
1970 1471 0.000407873 1471 100%
1971 1198 0.000349031 1192 6 99%
1972 953 0.000303214 953 100%
1973 801 0.000265505 795 6 99%
1974 675 0.00022204 675 100%
1975 575 0.000190436 575 100%
1976 452 0.000148964 452 100%
1977 386 0.000121518 386 100%
1978 445 0.000140207 445 100%
1979 412 0.000123835 412 100%
1980 357 0.000103643 357 100%
1981 319 0.000092213 319 100%
1982 300 0.00008552 300 100%
1983 218 0.000062945 218 100%
1984 220 0.00006306 220 100%
1985 198 0.000055476 198 100%
1986 198 0.000055664 198 100%
1987 175 0.000048535 175 100%
1988 153 0.000041407 153 100%
1989 135 0.000035116 135 100%
1990 118 0.000029855 118 100%
1991 109 0.000027983 109 100%
1992 83 0.000021607 83 100%
1993 89 0.000023606 89 100%
1994 73 0.000019636 73 100%
1995 68 0.000018568 68 100%
1996 58 0.000015903 58 100%
1997 53 0.000014618 53 100%
1998 46 0.000012506 46 100%
1999 52 0.000014077 52 100%
2000 45 0.000011905 45 100%
2001 35 0.00000935 35 100%
2002 31 0.000008293 31 100%
2003 54 0.000014202 54 100%
2004 47 0.000012301 47 100%
2005 26 0.000006762 26 100%
2006 28 0.000007078 28 100%
2007 23 0.000005753 23 100%
2008 45 0.000011448 45 100%
2009 27 0.000007068 27 100%
2010 32 0.000008659 32 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 100%
2012 19 0.000005195 19 100%
2013 27 0.000007406 27 100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 100%
2015 17 0.000004593 17 100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 100%
2017 23 0.000006431 23 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 27 0.000007779 27 100%
2020 12 0.000003592 12 100%
2021 22 0.000006494 22 100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 100%
2024 24 0.00000721 24 100%

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