Shelbee
Shelbee was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 602 Americans have been recorded with it between 1986 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shelbee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shelbee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,259, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
41 babies in 1996, the peak
Shelbee peaked in 1996, when 41 girls were given it, #2,951 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,259 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,620 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,073 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,954 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,839 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,338 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,146 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,136 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,174 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,173 | 10.1 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #10,566 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,107 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,935 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,313 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,682 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,354 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,510 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,366 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,537 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,435 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,880 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,558 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,976 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,951 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,649 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,989 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,078 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,395 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,919 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,232 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,684 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shelbee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shelbee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shelbee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shelbee, and how old are they?
An estimated 593 Americans named Shelbee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 540 people named Shelbee (537 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Shelbee?
Shelbee is a less common spelling of Shelby: SSA has recorded 602 Shelbee and 165,279 Shelby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 180,477 babies since 1880, Shelbee is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 511 babies recorded by SSA was a Shelbee (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 Shelbee
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 Shelbee and names like it
- Compare Shelbee and ShelbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShelbee peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shelbee since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Shelbee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shelbee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.