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How popular is “Shirl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shirl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shirl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shirl” 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
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 9 0.000003978 9 -100%
1921 7 0.000002998 7 -100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 -100%
1926 9 0.00000392 9 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 -100%
1929 8 0.000003649 8 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 13 0.000006502 13 -100%
1934 17 0.000008186 7 10 -18%
1935 20 0.00000957 5 15 -50%
1936 11 0.000005295 11 -100%
1937 19 0.000008917 5 14 -47%
1938 22 0.000009943 22 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 11 0.000004777 11 -100%
1941 19 0.000007798 5 14 -47%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 -100%
1943 16 0.000005669 16 -100%
1944 19 0.000007063 9 10 -5%
1945 14 0.000005277 8 6 14%
1946 24 0.000007511 14 10 17%
1947 26 0.000007218 13 13 0%
1948 25 0.000007241 14 11 12%
1949 26 0.000007461 12 14 -8%
1950 31 0.000008849 24 7 55%
1951 22 0.000005972 14 8 27%
1952 43 0.000011322 33 10 53%
1953 20 0.00000519 20 100%
1954 35 0.000008792 29 6 66%
1955 27 0.000006725 21 6 56%
1956 31 0.000007519 24 7 55%
1957 38 0.000009043 38 100%
1958 51 0.000012337 42 9 65%
1959 52 0.000012506 43 9 65%
1960 53 0.000012759 46 7 74%
1961 50 0.000012071 50 100%
1962 72 0.000017842 72 100%
1963 152 0.000038401 152 100%
1964 216 0.000055561 210 6 94%
1965 91 0.0000251 91 100%
1966 65 0.000018702 60 5 85%
1967 49 0.000014433 49 100%
1968 29 0.000008584 29 100%
1969 37 0.000010646 37 100%
1970 19 0.000005268 19 100%
1971 20 0.000005827 20 100%
1972 25 0.000007954 25 100%
1973 17 0.000005635 17 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 16 0.000005299 16 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%

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