Shellie
Shellie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 479th, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1970423 births
- Best rank
- #479in 1970
- Since 1882
- 10,859people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,967 girls have been named Shellie in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 423 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 423 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 34%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 892 boys have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shellie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | |
| 1890s | 76 | |
| 1900s | 78 | |
| 1910s | 151 | |
| 1920s | 117 | |
| 1930s | 102 | |
| 1940s | 247 | |
| 1950s | 1,168 | |
| 1960s | 3,412 | |
| 1970s | 2,943 | |
| 1980s | 1,100 | |
| 1990s | 380 | |
| 2000s | 143 | |
| 2010s | 26 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Shellie was the 479th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Shellie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wendypeak 1967
- Detrapeak 1970
- Shellypeak 1964
- Dawnpeak 1970
- Yolondapeak 1972
- Trenapeak 1971
- Tanjapeak 1970
- Tinapeak 1968
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.