Shaelee
Shaelee was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 458 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaelee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaelee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,906, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 2004, the peak
Shaelee peaked in 2004, when 29 girls were given it, #4,686 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #14,906 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,741 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,882 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,728 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,125 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,889 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,967 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,622 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,285 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,354 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 17 | #7,629 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,924 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,868 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,434 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,937 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,686 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,150 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,874 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,775 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,897 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,427 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,757 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,373 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,676 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,558 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,586 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,571 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,943 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,058 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,974 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,492 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,485 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,839 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaelee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaelee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaelee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaelee, and how old are they?
An estimated 452 Americans named Shaelee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 429 people named Shaelee (428 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 447 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,958 babies since 1880, Shaelee is the seventh most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 59 babies recorded by SSA was a Shaelee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaelee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaelee and names like it
- Compare Shaelee and ShayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShaelee peaked in 2004.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaelee since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Shaelee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shaelee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.