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How popular is “Shirly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shirly” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shirly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shirly” 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%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 100%
1918 6 0.000002764 6 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 13 0.000005745 7 6 8%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 100%
1923 8 0.000003475 8 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 100%
1927 12 0.000005174 12 100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 100%
1929 16 0.000007299 16 100%
1930 10 0.000004498 10 100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 100%
1932 9 0.000004263 9 100%
1933 10 0.000005001 10 100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 100%
1935 27 0.000012919 27 100%
1936 37 0.000017809 31 6 68%
1937 26 0.000012203 26 100%
1938 23 0.000010395 23 100%
1939 26 0.0000118 26 100%
1940 22 0.000009554 22 100%
1941 21 0.000008619 21 100%
1942 25 0.000009151 25 100%
1943 20 0.000007086 20 100%
1944 16 0.000005948 16 100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 100%
1946 24 0.000007511 24 100%
1947 24 0.000006662 24 100%
1948 20 0.000005793 20 100%
1949 23 0.0000066 23 100%
1950 20 0.000005709 20 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 100%
1953 18 0.000004671 18 100%
1954 19 0.000004773 19 100%
1955 20 0.000004981 20 100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 100%
1961 17 0.000004104 17 100%
1962 19 0.000004708 19 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 100%
1965 13 0.000003586 13 100%
1966 12 0.000003453 12 100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 100%
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 8 0.000002331 8 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 6 0.000001974 6 100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 100%
1992 6 0.000001562 6 100%
1993 6 0.000001591 6 100%
1994 7 0.000001883 7 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1996 6 0.000001645 6 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1999 5 0.000001354 5 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%
2001 9 0.000002404 9 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 23 0.000005851 23 100%
2009 5 0.000001309 5 100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 100%

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