Shellie

Where Shellie comes from

Shellie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Shellie McMillon born
    American basketball player
  3. 1943
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1970
    Peak, #478
    423 babies named Shellie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #767.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shellie McMillon · American basketball player, 1936–1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.