Shaelee — girls' name
458 babies named Shaelee in U.S. Social Security records since 1987, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Shaelee was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Shaelee in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shaelee
The Social Security Administration has registered 458 babies named Shaelee between 1987 and 2023, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaelee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 29 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaelee performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 218 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shaelee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shaelee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shaelee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 458 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Shaelee at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shaelee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1987
- Peak year (2004)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
458 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 29 births in a single year.
Shaelee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 218 births that decade — 48% of Shaelee's all-time total
Shaelee decade highlights
- Peak decade 218 births
- Runner-up 137 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Shaelee's strongest decade
218 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Shaelee by state
Where Shaelee concentrates geographically — total births since 1987
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Utah | | 21 | 4.6% |
21 of 458 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Utah 4.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Utah accounts for 4.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1987–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.