Shelly
Shelly is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 89th, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19644,081 births
- Best rank
- #89in 1966
- Since 1916
- 86,588people given the name
The story in the numbers
84,398 girls have been named Shelly in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 4,081 births — 0.22% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 30 births in 2024, against 4,081 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 42%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,190 boys have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shelly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 47 | |
| 1930s | 194 | |
| 1940s | 748 | |
| 1950s | 8,796 | |
| 1960s | 35,661 | |
| 1970s | 25,533 | |
| 1980s | 9,098 | |
| 1990s | 2,731 | |
| 2000s | 1,029 | |
| 2010s | 423 | |
| 2020s | 133 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Shelly was the 101st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Shelly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shellipeak 1968
- Tinapeak 1968
- Tamalapeak 1971
- Machellepeak 1968
- Tammipeak 1968
- Shawnepeak 1969
- Kimberleypeak 1967
- Dawnpeak 1970
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.