Shefali — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shefali

The Social Security Administration has registered 296 babies named Shefali between 1971 and 2012, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shefali currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shefali performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 101 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shefali shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shefali in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shefali 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 296 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.