US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Shelley name popularity

Shelley has been given to 74,339 babies in the United States since 1892.

It peaked in 1964, when 2,845 babies got the name, and its best rank was #242 in 1973.

In 2025, 13 babies were named Shelley (#13,540 in the country), 99.5% below the peak.

About 98% of babies named Shelley were girls and 2% were boys.

An estimated 64K people named Shelley are alive in the US today, with a median age of 59.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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