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How popular is “Shonda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shonda” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shonda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shonda” 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
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 100%
1957 28 0.000006663 28 100%
1958 26 0.000006289 26 100%
1959 23 0.000005532 23 100%
1960 41 0.00000987 41 100%
1961 52 0.000012553 52 100%
1962 48 0.000011895 48 100%
1963 75 0.000018948 75 100%
1964 97 0.000024951 97 100%
1965 117 0.000032272 117 100%
1966 159 0.000045747 159 100%
1967 180 0.000053021 180 100%
1968 219 0.000064823 219 100%
1969 402 0.000115673 402 100%
1970 510 0.000141411 510 100%
1971 466 0.000135767 466 100%
1972 438 0.000139358 438 100%
1973 468 0.000155127 468 100%
1974 440 0.000144737 440 100%
1975 441 0.000146056 441 100%
1976 420 0.000138417 420 100%
1977 315 0.000099166 315 100%
1978 306 0.000096412 306 100%
1979 270 0.000081154 270 100%
1980 235 0.000068225 235 100%
1981 207 0.000059837 207 100%
1982 184 0.000052452 184 100%
1983 171 0.000049374 171 100%
1984 146 0.000041849 146 100%
1985 128 0.000035863 128 100%
1986 103 0.000028956 103 100%
1987 111 0.000030785 111 100%
1988 84 0.000022733 84 100%
1989 71 0.000018468 71 100%
1990 67 0.000016951 67 100%
1991 62 0.000015917 62 100%
1992 56 0.000014579 56 100%
1993 38 0.000010079 38 100%
1994 45 0.000012104 45 100%
1995 30 0.000008192 30 100%
1996 19 0.000005209 19 100%
1997 21 0.000005792 21 100%
1998 17 0.000004622 17 100%
1999 14 0.00000379 14 100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 100%
2002 7 0.000001873 7 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 100%

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