Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shelba” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelba” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shelba” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Shelba” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Shelba” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Shelba” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Shelba” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelba” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1935 6 0.000002871 6 100%
1936 166 0.000079901 166 100%
1937 349 0.000163798 344 5 97%
1938 254 0.000114798 254 100%
1939 200 0.000090767 200 100%
1940 174 0.000075564 174 100%
1941 130 0.000053357 130 100%
1942 83 0.000030383 83 100%
1943 64 0.000022674 64 100%
1944 57 0.000021189 57 100%
1945 34 0.000012816 34 100%
1946 40 0.000012518 40 100%
1947 27 0.000007495 27 100%
1948 37 0.000010717 37 100%
1949 33 0.00000947 33 100%
1950 28 0.000007992 28 100%
1951 28 0.000007601 28 100%
1952 32 0.000008425 32 100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 100%
1954 24 0.000006029 24 100%
1955 42 0.000010461 42 100%
1956 21 0.000005093 21 100%
1957 36 0.000008567 36 100%
1958 31 0.000007499 31 100%
1959 30 0.000007215 30 100%
1960 20 0.000004815 20 100%
1961 19 0.000004587 19 100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 100%
1963 21 0.000005305 21 100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 100%
1965 7 0.000001931 7 100%
1966 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1967 17 0.000005008 17 100%
1968 8 0.000002368 8 100%
1969 7 0.000002014 7 100%
1972 7 0.000002227 7 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 100%

Explore other names

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  10. Shelbert
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