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How popular is “Sheyla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sheyla” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sheyla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sheyla” 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
1970 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 5 0.000001648 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 100%
1988 20 0.000005413 20 100%
1989 27 0.000007023 27 100%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 100%
1991 44 0.000011296 44 100%
1992 51 0.000013277 51 100%
1993 48 0.000012731 48 100%
1994 40 0.000010759 40 100%
1995 48 0.000013107 48 100%
1996 55 0.00001508 55 100%
1997 65 0.000017927 65 100%
1998 71 0.000019303 71 100%
1999 69 0.00001868 69 100%
2000 111 0.000029366 111 100%
2001 215 0.000057435 215 100%
2002 204 0.00005457 204 100%
2003 172 0.000045236 172 100%
2004 150 0.000039258 150 100%
2005 152 0.000039533 152 100%
2006 309 0.000078105 309 100%
2007 250 0.000062536 250 100%
2008 252 0.000064111 252 100%
2009 170 0.000044501 170 100%
2010 149 0.000040317 149 100%
2011 135 0.000036908 135 100%
2012 115 0.000031443 115 100%
2013 109 0.000029899 109 100%
2014 103 0.00002779 103 100%
2015 87 0.000023508 87 100%
2016 95 0.000025895 95 100%
2017 74 0.000020692 74 100%
2018 86 0.00002446 86 100%
2019 65 0.000018727 65 100%
2020 67 0.000020056 67 100%
2021 85 0.000025089 85 100%
2022 107 0.000031627 107 100%
2023 84 0.000025368 84 100%
2024 105 0.000031546 105 100%

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