Shalee — girls' name
1,074 babies named Shalee in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Shalee was born in this single decade.
61 babies were named Shalee in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shalee
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,074 babies named Shalee between 1968 and 2014, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shalee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 61 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shalee performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 399 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shalee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 73 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shalee in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shalee 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 1,074 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.
Shalee at a glance
Last recorded 2014Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shalee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–1968
- Peak year (1993)
- 61
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2014.
1,074 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 61 births in a single year.
Shalee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 399 births that decade — 37% of Shalee's all-time total
Shalee decade highlights
- Peak decade 399 births
- Runner-up 296 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Shalee's strongest decade
399 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Shalee by state
Where Shalee concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Utah | | 73 | 6.8% |
| #2 | Texas | | 34 | 3.2% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #4 | California | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #5 | Florida | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #7 | Nebraska | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #8 | Oklahoma | | 5 | 0.5% |
73 of 1,074 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Utah 6.8% of nationwide
- Texas 3.2% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.6% of nationwide
- California 0.5% of nationwide
- Florida 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Utah accounts for 6.8% 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, 1968–2014 (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.