Shelbey

Last seen for girls in 2014 at #13,069

Peak · girls
1992 · 94 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
896
since 1981

Shelbey over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Shelbey has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201981peak #1,622, 1992girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2014#13,0697
2013#13,1507
2012#14,9626
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2010#7,51316
2009#12,4298
2008#10,08411
2007#11,6309
2006#7,48216
2005#14,5026
2004#7,82814
2003#5,23523
2002#7,04515
2001#3,70335
2000#4,07930
1999#2,67552
1998#2,73149
1997#2,17463
1996#2,01469
1995#1,98269
1994#2,16762
1993#1,80181
1992#1,62294
1991#1,77980
1990#3,81327
1989#6,16013
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1986#9,5456
1985#6,03111
1984#10,4225
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five girls were named Shelbey! It came in at #8,128, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982–1984, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Shelbey is popular in 1981

No state had 5 or more girls named Shelbey in 1981, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Shelbey
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 1992 at #1,622 (94 births)
  • Births halved by 2000, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 19,616
  • Highest: 1 in 19,616 girls born in 1992 were named Shelbey (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 255,194 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 72.1% of all girls named Shelbey (646) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s47#6,031 (1985)#8,602
1990s646#1,622 (1992)#2,276
2000s167#3,703 (2001)#8,402
2010s36#7,513 (2010)#12,174

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Shelbey in 1981

girls
#8,128
7 births · 1 in 238,294 girls

Top girls' names in 1981

  1. #1Jennifer57,046
  2. #2Jessica42,531
  3. #3Amanda34,372
  4. #4Sarah28,175
  5. #5Melissa28,005
  6. #6Amy20,345
  7. #7Nicole20,310
  8. #8Stephanie20,212
  9. #9Elizabeth20,168
  10. #10Heather17,946
  11. #8,128Shelbey7
More about 1981

girls

1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 238,294 of them was named Shelbey, which outranked 33.4% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Shelbey
  1. #7,409Yuka8
  2. #7,409Zanetta8
  3. #7,409Zonia8
  4. #8,128Shelbey7
  5. #8,128Aarika7
  6. #8,128Abbigale7
  7. #8,128Abbye7
  8. #9,110Aaisha6
  9. #9,110Abbra6
  10. #9,110Abel6

Tied with 981 names at #8,128; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,850Tashina#4,743 → #893
  2. ↑ 2,742Krystle#3,215 → #473
  3. ↑ 1,800Tierra#2,342 → #542
  4. ↑ 1,398Martine#2,189 → #791
  5. ↑ 999Nereida#1,981 → #982
Fallers
  1. ↓ 764Kylene#990 → #1,754
  2. ↓ 607Renada#708 → #1,315
  3. ↓ 560Ashanti#822 → #1,382
  4. ↓ 399Renata#336 → #735
  5. ↓ 395Tracee#959 → #1,354

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1981 →