Shalee
Shalee was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 1,074 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Shalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,212, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1993, the peak
Shalee peaked in 1993, when 61 girls were given it, #2,186 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,212 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,127 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,644 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,886 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,533 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,288 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,796 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,753 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,518 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,194 | 17.5 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 35 | #3,790 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,338 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,503 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,703 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,120 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,766 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,551 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,651 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,287 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,186 | 33.7 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,719 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,342 | 29.3 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,725 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,512 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,519 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,904 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,506 | 23.3 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,994 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,217 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,652 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,874 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,974 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,837 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,350 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,637 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,602 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,998 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,887 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,516 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,797 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,840 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,209 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,806 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,863 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,127 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalee, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,074 Americans ever recorded as Shalee. The median Shalee alive today is 34 years old; half are between 26 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 989 people named Shalee (974 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 118 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 562 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 361 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 13,089 babies since 1880, Shalee is the third most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 50 babies recorded by SSA was a Shalee (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 Shalee
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 Shalee and names like it
- Compare Shalee and ShayleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShalee peaked in 1993.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalee since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Shalee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shalee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.