Shellie
Shellie was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 10,859 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,690 Americans named Shellie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 49 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shellie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shellie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,729, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
423 babies in 1970, the peak
Shellie peaked in 1970, when 423 girls were given it, #479 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,870 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,007 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,728 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,000 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,742 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,275 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,794 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,176 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,533 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 15 | #7,376 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,811 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,792 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,867 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,323 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,357 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,952 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,687 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,711 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,721 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,278 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,268 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,660 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,458 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 126 | #1,142 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 121 | #1,136 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 129 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 130 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 152 | #969 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 156 | #954 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 188 | #832 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 201 | #771 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 220 | #706 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 254 | #619 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 317 | #546 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 300 | #557 | 0.20 |
| 1973 | 319 | #528 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 336 | #513 | 0.22 |
| 1971 | 385 | #496 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 423 | #479 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 403 | #481 | 0.24 |
| 1968 | 368 | #506 | 0.22 |
| 1967 | 377 | #490 | 0.23 |
| 1966 | 349 | #505 | 0.21 |
| 1965 | 391 | #480 | 0.22 |
| 1964 | 387 | #497 | 0.20 |
| 1963 | 336 | #530 | 0.17 |
| 1962 | 345 | #526 | 0.18 |
| 1961 | 243 | #659 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 213 | #700 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 178 | #766 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 143 | #856 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 138 | #867 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 122 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 100 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 118 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 88 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 92 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 100 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 89 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 61 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,997 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 21 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,945 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,713 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,069 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,700 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,678 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,240 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,620 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,955 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,175 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,616 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,346 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,785 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,531 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,109 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,118 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,045 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,493 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,114 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,192 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 11 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,085 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,023 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,182 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,017 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shellie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,859 Americans recorded as Shellie, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shellie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shellie, and how old are they?
8,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 10,859 Americans ever recorded as Shellie. The median Shellie alive today is 56 years old; half are between 49 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 8,193 people named Shellie (7,918 women and girls, 275 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,068 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 122 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,450 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,660 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 229 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shellie born?
The states with the most babies named Shellie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,049 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 639 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 503 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 431 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 329 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Indiana | 293 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 280 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 240 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 234 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Oklahoma | 204 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Shellie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shellie is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shellie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shellie?
Shellie is a less common spelling of Shelly: SSA has recorded 10,859 Shellie and 86,610 Shelly since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 229,317 babies since 1880, Shellie is the fourth most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 34 babies recorded by SSA was a Shellie (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 Shellie
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 Shellie and names like it
- Compare Shellie and ShellyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShellie peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shellie since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Shellie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shellie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.