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How popular is “Shigeru” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shigeru” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shigeru” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shigeru” 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
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1915 21 0.00001146 21 -100%
1916 28 0.000014475 28 -100%
1917 37 0.000018438 37 -100%
1918 40 0.000018424 40 -100%
1919 27 0.000012795 27 -100%
1920 40 0.000017678 40 -100%
1921 42 0.000017991 42 -100%
1922 32 0.000013979 32 -100%
1923 32 0.000013898 32 -100%
1924 31 0.000013016 31 -100%
1925 25 0.000010714 25 -100%
1926 38 0.000016551 38 -100%
1927 31 0.000013366 31 -100%
1928 27 0.000011942 27 -100%
1929 19 0.000008667 19 -100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 13 0.000006157 13 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1936 8 0.000003851 8 -100%
1937 5 0.000002347 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%

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