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How popular is “Shimeka” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shimeka” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shimeka” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shimeka” 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
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1975 13 0.000004305 13 100%
1976 19 0.000006262 19 100%
1977 22 0.000006926 22 100%
1978 13 0.000004096 13 100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 100%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 100%
1981 21 0.00000607 21 100%
1982 23 0.000006557 23 100%
1983 14 0.000004042 14 100%
1984 15 0.0000043 15 100%
1985 12 0.000003362 12 100%
1986 12 0.000003374 12 100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 5 0.000001301 5 100%
1990 6 0.000001518 6 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 100%

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