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How popular is “Shiela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shiela” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shiela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shiela” 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
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 100%
1924 13 0.000005458 13 100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 100%
1926 7 0.000003049 7 100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 100%
1929 12 0.000005474 12 100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 11 100%
1933 13 0.000006502 13 100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 100%
1935 23 0.000011005 23 100%
1936 29 0.000013959 29 100%
1937 17 0.000007979 17 100%
1938 19 0.000008587 19 100%
1939 20 0.000009077 20 100%
1940 25 0.000010857 25 100%
1941 41 0.000016828 41 100%
1942 46 0.000016839 46 100%
1943 42 0.00001488 42 100%
1944 40 0.000014869 40 100%
1945 56 0.000021109 56 100%
1946 58 0.000018152 58 100%
1947 79 0.00002193 79 100%
1948 74 0.000021434 74 100%
1949 74 0.000021235 74 100%
1950 75 0.000021408 75 100%
1951 92 0.000024975 92 100%
1952 81 0.000021327 81 100%
1953 92 0.000023874 92 100%
1954 76 0.000019092 76 100%
1955 81 0.000020174 81 100%
1956 99 0.000024011 99 100%
1957 115 0.000027367 115 100%
1958 98 0.000023706 98 100%
1959 131 0.000031506 131 100%
1960 126 0.000030334 126 100%
1961 136 0.000032832 136 100%
1962 127 0.000031472 127 100%
1963 157 0.000039664 157 100%
1964 156 0.000040128 156 100%
1965 146 0.000040271 146 100%
1966 134 0.000038554 134 100%
1967 112 0.000032991 112 100%
1968 129 0.000038184 129 100%
1969 132 0.000037982 132 100%
1970 216 0.000059892 216 100%
1971 139 0.000040497 139 100%
1972 116 0.000036907 116 100%
1973 91 0.000030164 91 100%
1974 72 0.000023684 72 100%
1975 53 0.000017553 53 100%
1976 75 0.000024717 75 100%
1977 53 0.000016685 53 100%
1978 47 0.000014808 47 100%
1979 44 0.000013225 44 100%
1980 39 0.000011322 39 100%
1981 29 0.000008383 29 100%
1982 47 0.000013398 47 100%
1983 25 0.000007218 25 100%
1984 31 0.000008886 31 100%
1985 37 0.000010367 37 100%
1986 30 0.000008434 30 100%
1987 33 0.000009152 33 100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 100%
1989 16 0.000004162 16 100%
1990 22 0.000005566 22 100%
1991 25 0.000006418 25 100%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 100%
1993 17 0.000004509 17 100%
1994 18 0.000004842 18 100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1997 10 0.000002758 10 100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 100%

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