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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shi” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shi” 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
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 11 0.000003643 11 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 12 0.000003484 7 5 17%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1990 11 0.000002783 6 5 9%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1993 21 0.00000557 14 7 33%
1994 14 0.000003766 14 100%
1995 22 0.000006007 13 9 18%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 100%
1997 15 0.000004137 15 100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 13 0.000003439 13 100%
2001 28 0.00000748 19 9 36%
2002 18 0.000004815 13 5 44%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 21 0.000005496 16 5 52%
2005 8 0.000002081 8 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 100%
2007 19 0.000004753 12 7 26%
2008 14 0.000003562 8 6 14%
2009 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2010 11 0.000002976 11 100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 -100%
2014 14 0.000003777 9 5 29%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 100%
2022 6 0.000001774 6 100%

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