How popular is “Shirley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shirley” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shirley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shirley” 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
1880	18	0.000089337	8	10	-11%
1881	7	0.000036328		7	-100%
1882	20	0.00009028	9	11	-10%
1883	31	0.000142893	18	13	16%
1884	29	0.000119116	18	11	24%
1885	33	0.000137012	16	17	-3%
1886	33	0.000129252	16	17	-3%
1887	29	0.000117223	20	9	38%
1888	46	0.000153603	32	14	39%
1889	55	0.000190347	42	13	53%
1890	59	0.000195753	40	19	36%
1891	50	0.000174415	35	15	40%
1892	73	0.000218318	58	15	59%
1893	67	0.000206012	52	15	55%
1894	69	0.000203726	47	22	36%
1895	71	0.000202268	43	28	21%
1896	67	0.000187421	55	12	64%
1897	81	0.000233458	61	20	51%
1898	85	0.000222831	70	15	65%
1899	88	0.000259408	74	14	68%
1900	142	0.000315375	110	32	55%
1901	105	0.000303633	95	10	81%
1902	126	0.000325806	104	22	65%
1903	119	0.000312172	102	17	71%
1904	162	0.000401502	138	24	70%
1905	178	0.000419889	162	16	82%
1906	210	0.000490138	187	23	78%
1907	264	0.000567266	247	17	87%
1908	306	0.000626216	284	22	86%
1909	314	0.000614212	281	33	79%
1910	342	0.000578963	318	24	86%
1911	397	0.000616194	362	35	82%
1912	555	0.000561706	489	66	76%
1913	797	0.0007009	684	113	72%
1914	1047	0.000739227	906	141	73%
1915	1306	0.000712716	1135	171	74%
1916	1400	0.000723732	1245	155	78%
1917	1972	0.000982684	1800	172	83%
1918	2836	0.001306244	2654	182	87%
1919	3346	0.001585598	3149	197	88%
1920	4909	0.002169587	4713	196	92%
1921	5922	0.002536726	5695	227	92%
1922	6636	0.002898885	6407	229	93%
1923	8149	0.003539226	7918	231	94%
1924	9715	0.004079173	9489	226	95%
1925	10736	0.004601205	10513	223	96%
1926	11975	0.005215808	11761	214	96%
1927	13556	0.005844721	13314	242	96%
1928	14464	0.006397345	14215	249	97%
1929	14839	0.00676912	14576	263	96%
1930	15048	0.006768354	14775	273	96%
1931	14644	0.006958793	14405	239	97%
1932	14718	0.00697109	14476	242	97%
1933	14533	0.00726851	14320	213	97%
1934	23129	0.011136759	22841	288	98%
1935	42800	0.020479448	42365	435	98%
1936	35543	0.017107902	35162	381	98%
1937	27160	0.012747164	26823	337	98%
1938	24031	0.010861105	23766	265	98%
1939	20683	0.009386677	20445	238	98%
1940	18094	0.007857784	17880	214	98%
1941	17129	0.007030383	16955	174	98%
1942	17954	0.00657218	17749	205	98%
1943	18002	0.0063779	17816	186	98%
1944	16438	0.006110601	16310	128	98%
1945	16293	0.006141558	16150	143	98%
1946	18014	0.005637643	17869	145	98%
1947	17771	0.004933207	17647	124	99%
1948	16193	0.0046902	16122	71	99%
1949	17365	0.004983104	17282	83	99%
1950	15973	0.00455934	15891	82	99%
1951	13996	0.003799401	13918	78	99%
1952	12596	0.003316478	12529	67	99%
1953	12217	0.003170246	12149	68	99%
1954	10974	0.002756796	10908	66	99%
1955	9807	0.002442542	9756	51	99%
1956	9483	0.002300004	9429	54	99%
1957	8917	0.002122012	8855	62	99%
1958	8141	0.001969325	8088	53	99%
1959	7325	0.001761668	7284	41	99%
1960	6457	0.001554475	6410	47	99%
1961	5674	0.00136977	5638	36	99%
1962	4906	0.001215749	4870	36	99%
1963	4412	0.001114648	4385	27	99%
1964	3995	0.001027625	3968	27	99%
1965	3401	0.000938091	3370	31	98%
1966	2955	0.000850199	2919	36	98%
1967	2539	0.000747887	2508	31	98%
1968	2155	0.000637873	2142	13	99%
1969	1892	0.00054441	1867	25	97%
1970	1648	0.000456951	1629	19	98%
1971	1606	0.0004679	1588	18	98%
1972	1347	0.000428572	1334	13	98%
1973	1162	0.000385165	1155	7	99%
1974	1022	0.000336184	1010	12	98%
1975	881	0.00029178	875	6	99%
1976	846	0.000278812	834	12	97%
1977	777	0.000244609	777		100%
1978	656	0.000206688	647	9	97%
1979	678	0.000203787	671	7	98%
1980	611	0.000177384	603	8	97%
1981	579	0.000167371	579		100%
1982	608	0.00017332	601	7	98%
1983	516	0.000148989	506	10	96%
1984	482	0.000138158	477	5	98%
1985	499	0.000139811	494	5	98%
1986	440	0.000123697	435	5	98%
1987	465	0.000128966	459	6	97%
1988	468	0.000126656	462	6	97%
1989	457	0.000118873	457		100%
1990	472	0.000119419	472		100%
1991	446	0.000114498	446		100%
1992	454	0.00011819	449	5	98%
1993	413	0.000109541	406	7	97%
1994	380	0.000102215	380		100%
1995	343	0.000093661	343		100%
1996	339	0.000092948	339		100%
1997	333	0.000091843	333		100%
1998	293	0.000079658	293		100%
1999	231	0.000062536	231		100%
2000	259	0.00006852	259		100%
2001	305	0.000081477	305		100%
2002	259	0.000069283	259		100%
2003	313	0.000082318	313		100%
2004	240	0.000062812	240		100%
2005	284	0.000073865	284		100%
2006	249	0.000062939	249		100%
2007	288	0.000072042	288		100%
2008	304	0.000077341	304		100%
2009	233	0.000060992	233		100%
2010	178	0.000048164	178		100%
2011	188	0.000051397	188		100%
2012	176	0.000048122	176		100%
2013	174	0.000047728	174		100%
2014	202	0.000054501	202		100%
2015	181	0.000048907	181		100%
2016	168	0.000045793	168		100%
2017	185	0.000051731	185		100%
2018	152	0.000043232	152		100%
2019	148	0.00004264	148		100%
2020	137	0.000041011	137		100%
2021	105	0.000030992	105		100%
2022	134	0.000039608	134		100%
2023	139	0.000041979	139		100%
2024	151	0.000045366	151		100%

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