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How popular is “Shifa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shifa” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shifa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shifa” 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
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
2001 10 0.000002671 10 100%
2002 18 0.000004815 18 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 100%
2006 21 0.000005308 21 100%
2007 16 0.000004002 16 100%
2008 17 0.000004325 17 100%
2009 15 0.000003927 15 100%
2011 14 0.000003827 14 100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 13 0.000003513 13 100%
2016 14 0.000003816 14 100%
2018 12 0.000003413 12 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 100%
2021 10 0.000002952 10 100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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