Shaletha — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaletha

The Social Security Administration has registered 189 babies named Shaletha between 1969 and 1996, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaletha currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaletha performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shaletha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shaletha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaletha 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 189 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.