Shelbey
Shelbey was last recorded in 2014, when 7 babies were given it; 896 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shelbey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shelbey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,339, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
94 babies in 1992, the peak
Shelbey peaked in 1992, when 94 girls were given it, #1,623 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,339 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,376 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,551 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,830 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,503 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,686 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,515 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,803 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,135 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,175 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 23 | #5,384 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,375 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,769 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,166 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,693 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,749 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 63 | #2,192 | 36.2 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,034 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,998 | 39.2 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,179 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,806 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,623 | 51.0 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,792 | 42.7 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,886 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,470 | 7.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,941 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,685 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,392 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,876 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,902 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shelbey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shelbey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shelbey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shelbey, and how old are they?
An estimated 880 Americans named Shelbey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 27 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 885 people named Shelbey (866 women and girls, 19 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 884 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 Shelbey?
Shelbey is a less common spelling of Shelby: SSA has recorded 896 Shelbey and 165,279 Shelby since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 180,826 babies since 1880, Shelbey is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 511 babies recorded by SSA was a Shelbey (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 Shelbey
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 Shelbey and names like it
- Compare Shelbey and ShelbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShelbey peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shelbey since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shelbey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shelbey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.