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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shontay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shontay” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shontay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shontay” 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
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1969 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1971 13 0.000003787 13 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 16 0.000005303 16 100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 100%
1975 25 0.00000828 25 100%
1976 19 0.000006262 19 100%
1977 44 0.000013852 39 5 77%
1978 37 0.000011658 32 5 73%
1979 25 0.000007514 25 100%
1980 25 0.000007258 25 100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 100%
1982 22 0.000006271 22 100%
1983 24 0.00000693 24 100%
1984 16 0.000004586 16 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 100%
1986 25 0.000007028 25 100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 14 100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 100%
1991 23 0.000005905 23 100%
1992 21 0.000005467 21 100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 100%
1995 7 0.000001911 7 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 100%

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