Name Trends

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How popular is “Shelvia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shelvia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Shelvia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shelvia” 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 33 0.000015884 33 100%
1937 63 0.000029568 63 100%
1938 55 0.000024858 55 100%
1939 28 0.000012707 28 100%
1940 33 0.000014331 33 100%
1941 34 0.000013955 34 100%
1942 17 0.000006223 17 100%
1943 17 0.000006023 17 100%
1944 13 0.000004833 13 100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 100%
1950 6 0.000001713 6 100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 8 0.00000201 8 100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Shelvia:

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  2. Shelsy
  3. Shelton
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  5. Shelvey
  6. Shelvia (this page)
  7. Shelvie
  8. Shelvin
  9. Shelvy
  10. Shely
  11. Shelyn