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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Shelbie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelbie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shelbie” 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 “Shelbie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelbie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelbie” 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
1936 19 0.000009145 19 100%
1937 37 0.000017365 37 100%
1938 31 0.000014011 31 100%
1939 24 0.000010892 24 100%
1940 18 0.000007817 18 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 9 0.000003295 9 100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 100%
1946 6 0.000001878 6 100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1961 16 0.000003863 16 100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 8 0.000002058 8 100%
1965 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 100%
1968 13 0.000003848 13 100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 100%
1970 13 0.000003605 13 100%
1971 21 0.000006118 21 100%
1972 18 0.000005727 18 100%
1973 15 0.000004972 15 100%
1974 29 0.000009539 29 100%
1975 27 0.000008942 27 100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 100%
1979 19 0.000005711 19 100%
1980 21 0.000006097 21 100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 100%
1982 17 0.000004846 17 100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 100%
1984 30 0.000008599 30 100%
1985 32 0.000008966 32 100%
1986 25 0.000007028 25 100%
1987 27 0.000007488 27 100%
1988 43 0.000011637 43 100%
1989 55 0.000014306 55 100%
1990 149 0.000037698 149 100%
1991 403 0.000103459 403 100%
1992 450 0.000117149 450 100%
1993 344 0.00009124 344 100%
1994 269 0.000072357 269 100%
1995 280 0.000076458 280 100%
1996 335 0.000091851 335 100%
1997 293 0.000080811 293 100%
1998 277 0.000075308 277 100%
1999 210 0.000056851 210 100%
2000 210 0.000055557 210 100%
2001 175 0.000046749 175 100%
2002 172 0.00004601 172 100%
2003 122 0.000032086 122 100%
2004 119 0.000031144 119 100%
2005 104 0.000027049 104 100%
2006 103 0.000026035 103 100%
2007 96 0.000024014 96 100%
2008 94 0.000023915 94 100%
2009 75 0.000019633 75 100%
2010 80 0.000021647 80 100%
2011 52 0.000014216 52 100%
2012 57 0.000015585 57 100%
2013 31 0.000008503 31 100%
2014 45 0.000012141 45 100%
2015 37 0.000009998 37 100%
2016 32 0.000008722 32 100%
2017 30 0.000008389 30 100%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 100%
2019 12 0.000003457 12 100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 100%
2021 15 0.000004427 15 100%
2022 13 0.000003843 13 100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 100%
2024 9 0.000002704 9 100%

Explore other names

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  2. Shelbert
  3. Shelbey
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