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How popular is “Shirlee” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shirlee” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shirlee” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shirlee” 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 7 0.00000382 7 100%
1916 8 0.000004136 8 100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 100%
1919 43 0.000020377 43 100%
1920 67 0.000029611 67 100%
1921 91 0.00003898 91 100%
1922 115 0.000050237 115 100%
1923 170 0.000073833 170 100%
1924 194 0.000081458 194 100%
1925 183 0.00007843 183 100%
1926 181 0.000078836 181 100%
1927 185 0.000079763 185 100%
1928 172 0.000076075 172 100%
1929 153 0.000069794 148 5 93%
1930 147 0.000066118 147 100%
1931 139 0.000066052 139 100%
1932 121 0.000057311 121 100%
1933 129 0.000064518 129 100%
1934 209 0.000100635 209 100%
1935 340 0.000162687 340 100%
1936 195 0.000093859 195 100%
1937 155 0.000072747 155 100%
1938 121 0.000054687 121 100%
1939 129 0.000058545 129 100%
1940 94 0.000040822 94 100%
1941 98 0.000040223 98 100%
1942 115 0.000042097 115 100%
1943 119 0.00004216 119 100%
1944 97 0.000036058 97 100%
1945 97 0.000036564 97 100%
1946 113 0.000035364 113 100%
1947 116 0.000032201 116 100%
1948 96 0.000027806 96 100%
1949 104 0.000029844 104 100%
1950 90 0.00002569 90 100%
1951 104 0.000028232 104 100%
1952 73 0.000019221 73 100%
1953 77 0.000019981 77 100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 100%
1955 64 0.00001594 64 100%
1956 93 0.000022556 93 100%
1957 80 0.000019038 80 100%
1958 72 0.000017417 72 100%
1959 65 0.000015633 65 100%
1960 52 0.000012519 52 100%
1961 45 0.000010864 45 100%
1962 39 0.000009665 39 100%
1963 23 0.000005811 23 100%
1964 43 0.000011061 43 100%
1965 29 0.000007999 29 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 28 0.000008248 28 100%
1968 21 0.000006216 21 100%
1969 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1970 24 0.000006655 24 100%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 100%
1972 11 0.0000035 11 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 9 0.000002836 9 100%
1979 5 0.000001503 5 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1981 8 0.000002313 8 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 8 0.00000231 8 100%
1984 14 0.000004013 14 100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 100%
1990 8 0.000002024 8 100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1995 6 0.000001638 6 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 100%

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