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How popular is “Shelby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelby” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelby” 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
1880 8 0.000039705 8 -100%
1881 11 0.000057087 11 -100%
1882 13 0.000058682 13 -100%
1883 8 0.000036876 8 -100%
1884 16 0.000065719 16 -100%
1885 10 0.000041519 10 -100%
1886 9 0.00003525 9 -100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 -100%
1888 15 0.000050088 15 -100%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 -100%
1890 11 0.000036496 11 -100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 -100%
1892 19 0.000056823 19 -100%
1893 11 0.000033823 11 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 16 0.000045581 16 -100%
1896 14 0.000039163 14 -100%
1897 14 0.000040351 14 -100%
1898 22 0.000057674 22 -100%
1899 17 0.000050113 17 -100%
1900 20 0.000044419 20 -100%
1901 14 0.000040484 14 -100%
1902 11 0.000028443 11 -100%
1903 18 0.000047219 18 -100%
1904 12 0.000029741 12 -100%
1905 18 0.000042461 18 -100%
1906 29 0.000067686 29 -100%
1907 14 0.000030082 14 -100%
1908 31 0.00006344 31 -100%
1909 26 0.000050858 26 -100%
1910 29 0.000049093 29 -100%
1911 30 0.000046564 30 -100%
1912 48 0.00004858 48 -100%
1913 43 0.000037815 5 38 -77%
1914 89 0.000062838 5 84 -89%
1915 95 0.000051844 5 90 -89%
1916 110 0.000056865 10 100 -82%
1917 128 0.000063785 9 119 -86%
1918 118 0.00005435 5 113 -92%
1919 148 0.000070134 7 141 -91%
1920 156 0.000068946 10 146 -87%
1921 148 0.000063397 12 136 -84%
1922 138 0.000060284 10 128 -86%
1923 133 0.000057764 7 126 -89%
1924 117 0.000049126 7 110 -88%
1925 137 0.000058715 9 128 -87%
1926 120 0.000052267 120 -100%
1927 135 0.000058206 11 124 -84%
1928 116 0.000051306 19 97 -67%
1929 120 0.000054741 10 110 -83%
1930 111 0.000049926 111 -100%
1931 120 0.000057024 11 109 -82%
1932 124 0.000058732 18 106 -71%
1933 133 0.000066518 18 115 -73%
1934 150 0.000072226 17 133 -77%
1935 188 0.000089956 67 121 -29%
1936 1222 0.000588185 1071 151 75%
1937 2200 0.001032539 1997 203 82%
1938 1928 0.000871383 1714 214 78%
1939 1371 0.000622208 1164 207 70%
1940 1182 0.000513314 1006 176 70%
1941 994 0.000407975 826 168 66%
1942 758 0.000277471 599 159 58%
1943 691 0.000244813 491 200 42%
1944 528 0.000196277 367 161 39%
1945 486 0.000183195 333 153 37%
1946 568 0.000177761 397 171 40%
1947 515 0.000142963 369 146 43%
1948 426 0.000123388 266 160 25%
1949 388 0.000111341 241 147 24%
1950 391 0.000111607 248 143 27%
1951 394 0.000106957 232 162 18%
1952 360 0.000094787 228 132 27%
1953 384 0.000099646 262 122 36%
1954 463 0.000116311 310 153 34%
1955 495 0.000123285 344 151 39%
1956 477 0.000115691 345 132 45%
1957 495 0.000117797 367 128 48%
1958 510 0.00012337 382 128 50%
1959 488 0.000117364 357 131 46%
1960 467 0.000112427 308 159 32%
1961 517 0.00012481 386 131 49%
1962 487 0.000120683 370 117 52%
1963 506 0.000127836 370 136 46%
1964 434 0.000111637 317 117 46%
1965 388 0.000107021 274 114 41%
1966 460 0.000132349 304 156 32%
1967 422 0.000124304 293 129 39%
1968 463 0.000137047 320 143 38%
1969 499 0.000143584 326 173 31%
1970 559 0.000154997 400 159 43%
1971 744 0.000216761 556 188 49%
1972 927 0.000294942 754 173 63%
1973 848 0.000281084 677 171 60%
1974 983 0.000323355 799 184 63%
1975 941 0.000311652 746 195 59%
1976 751 0.000247504 575 176 53%
1977 740 0.000232961 553 187 49%
1978 651 0.000205112 483 168 48%
1979 572 0.000171927 428 144 50%
1980 616 0.000178836 482 134 56%
1981 647 0.000187028 512 135 58%
1982 560 0.000159637 435 125 55%
1983 799 0.000230702 642 157 61%
1984 1190 0.000341096 1042 148 75%
1985 1062 0.000297553 885 177 67%
1986 1072 0.000301371 900 172 68%
1987 1074 0.000297869 898 176 67%
1988 1065 0.000288224 881 184 65%
1989 1408 0.000366243 1203 205 71%
1990 3871 0.000979386 3517 354 82%
1991 10744 0.002758221 10220 524 90%
1992 9849 0.002563994 9396 453 91%
1993 8525 0.002261106 8122 403 91%
1994 7907 0.00212688 7545 362 91%
1995 7967 0.002175495 7632 335 92%
1996 8255 0.002263383 7950 305 93%
1997 6900 0.001903055 6701 199 94%
1998 6058 0.001646998 5893 165 95%
1999 5189 0.001404761 5018 171 93%
2000 4690 0.001240772 4561 129 94%
2001 4471 0.001194372 4370 101 95%
2002 4069 0.001088465 3961 108 95%
2003 3614 0.000950473 3537 77 96%
2004 3075 0.000804779 2988 87 94%
2005 2907 0.000756077 2839 68 95%
2006 2691 0.0006802 2620 71 95%
2007 2424 0.000606351 2351 73 94%
2008 2223 0.000565553 2147 76 93%
2009 1980 0.000518301 1935 45 95%
2010 1726 0.000467024 1680 46 95%
2011 1506 0.000411724 1462 44 94%
2012 1493 0.000408217 1447 46 94%
2013 1286 0.000352748 1239 47 93%
2014 1149 0.000310006 1114 35 94%
2015 1112 0.000300466 1080 32 94%
2016 1023 0.000278846 985 38 93%
2017 870 0.000243275 836 34 92%
2018 767 0.000218152 738 29 92%
2019 663 0.000191015 634 29 91%
2020 655 0.000196074 606 49 85%
2021 590 0.000174147 556 34 88%
2022 544 0.000160798 503 41 85%
2023 496 0.000149795 447 49 80%
2024 495 0.000148716 445 50 80%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Shelby:

  1. Shelbey
  2. Shelbi
  3. Shelbia
  4. Shelbie
  5. Shelbra
  6. Shelby (this page)
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  8. Shelbye
  9. Shelbyjean
  10. Shelbyjo
  11. Shelbylyn