Shale Boys

The U.S. popularity history of Shale: every year it appeared on the national list since 1972, with 56 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

Total recorded births

Peak year

1999 #7010

Years on the list

10-year trend

+5.6%

In the 1990s ·

Popularity history

1972–2003

Year	Births	Rank
1972	8	#3914
1991	6	#8084
1993	5	#9930
1996	5	#10295
1997	7	#7979
1998	6	#9459
1999	9	#7010
2002	5	#12204
2003	5	#12469

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1999

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

Names from the same era

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