Shellie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shellie

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,967 babies named Shellie between 1882 and 2015, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shellie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 423 babies received it in a single year. Shellie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 892 additional births since 1888.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shellie performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 3,412 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Shellie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,049 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shellie in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shellie 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 9,967 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.