Shelbie
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 450 births
- Debut · girls
- 19 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,580since 1936
Shelbie over time
Rank among girls' names. Shelbie has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 |
| 2012 | #2,978 | 57 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 |
| 2010 | #2,360 | 80 |
| 2009 | #2,510 | 75 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 |
| 2007 | #2,101 | 96 |
| 2006 | #1,939 | 103 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 |
| 2004 | #1,630 | 119 |
| 2003 | #1,579 | 122 |
| 2002 | #1,189 | 172 |
| 2001 | #1,175 | 175 |
| 2000 | #1,006 | 210 |
| 1999 | #983 | 210 |
| 1998 | #775 | 277 |
| 1997 | #726 | 293 |
| 1996 | #664 | 335 |
| 1995 | #730 | 280 |
| 1994 | #764 | 269 |
| 1993 | #647 | 344 |
| 1992 | #528 | 450 |
| 1991 | #576 | 403 |
| 1990 | #1,154 | 149 |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 |
| 1988 | #2,489 | 43 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #3,166 | 21 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
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| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #3,052 | 12 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | #2,742 | 11 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 |
| 1940 | #1,900 | 18 |
| 1939 | #1,544 | 24 |
| 1938 | #1,316 | 31 |
| 1937 | #1,180 | 37 |
| 1936 | #1,741 | 19 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shelbie! It came in at #1,741, and was given to 19 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1951–1953, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Shelbie is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#661 · 1 in 3,127
- Oklahoma#747 · 1 in 3,444
- Louisiana#836 · 1 in 4,131
- Georgia#1,360 · 1 in 8,454
- Ohio#1,434 · 1 in 10,889
Best ever in a state: #135 in Idaho, 1992.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #661 | 5 | 1 in 3,127 |
| Oklahoma | #747 | 5 | 1 in 3,444 |
| Louisiana | #836 | 5 | 1 in 4,131 |
| Georgia | #1,360 | 6 | 1 in 8,454 |
| Ohio | #1,434 | 5 | 1 in 10,889 |
| New York | #2,264 | 5 | 1 in 18,955 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shelbie
- 2,386 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #7,885)
- 1,802 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #7,885)
- 3,896 spots since 2015 (#3,989 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 578 spots in 1991 (#1,154 → #576)
- Biggest drop: 208 spots in 1999 (#775 → #983)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1992 at #528 (450 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1991–1999
- Highest: 1 in 4,098 girls born in 1992 were named Shelbie (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.9% of all girls named Shelbie (3,010) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 111 | #1,180 (1937) | #1,445 |
| 1940s | 92 | #1,900 (1940) | #3,432 |
| 1950s | 46 | #3,052 (1950) | #4,128 |
| 1960s | 100 | #3,189 (1961) | #4,651 |
| 1970s | 201 | #2,556 (1974) | #3,510 |
| 1980s | 276 | #2,194 (1989) | #3,572 |
| 1990s | 3,010 | #528 (1992) | #755 |
| 2000s | 1,270 | #1,006 (2000) | #1,712 |
| 2010s | 393 | #2,360 (2010) | #4,492 |
| 2020s | 81 | #6,083 (2020) | #8,001 |
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.
Shelbie in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 24,495 of them was named Shelbie, which outranked 87.6% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,485Therese76
- #2,485Tru76
- #2,485Vada76
- #2,510Shelbie75
- #2,510Alisia75
- #2,510Althea75
- #2,510Amaria75
- #2,531Alayla74
- #2,531Aleeya74
- #2,531Ameerah74
Tied with 20 names at #2,510; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.