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How popular is “Shirlie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shirlie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shirlie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shirlie” 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
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 16 0.000007369 16 100%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 100%
1920 23 0.000010165 23 100%
1921 34 0.000014564 34 100%
1922 41 0.000017911 41 100%
1923 23 0.000009989 23 100%
1924 43 0.000018055 43 100%
1925 53 0.000022715 53 100%
1926 58 0.000025262 58 100%
1927 38 0.000016384 38 100%
1928 46 0.000020346 46 100%
1929 39 0.000017791 39 100%
1930 30 0.000013494 30 100%
1931 34 0.000016157 34 100%
1932 29 0.000013736 29 100%
1933 34 0.000017005 34 100%
1934 33 0.00001589 33 100%
1935 60 0.00002871 60 100%
1936 45 0.00002166 45 100%
1937 24 0.000011264 24 100%
1938 34 0.000015367 34 100%
1939 30 0.000013615 30 100%
1940 29 0.000012594 29 100%
1941 25 0.000010261 25 100%
1942 32 0.000011714 32 100%
1943 24 0.000008503 24 100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 100%
1945 32 0.000012062 32 100%
1946 26 0.000008137 26 100%
1947 26 0.000007218 26 100%
1948 27 0.00000782 27 100%
1949 35 0.000010044 35 100%
1950 24 0.000006851 24 100%
1951 29 0.000007872 29 100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 22 0.000005527 22 100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 100%
1958 11 0.000002661 11 100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 100%
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%

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