Shelbi
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 513 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,496since 1961
Shelbi over time
Rank among girls' names. Shelbi has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 |
| 2011 | #3,051 | 55 |
| 2010 | #2,870 | 60 |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 |
| 2008 | #2,538 | 74 |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 |
| 2006 | #2,459 | 75 |
| 2005 | #1,969 | 97 |
| 2004 | #1,781 | 107 |
| 2003 | #1,579 | 122 |
| 2002 | #1,520 | 124 |
| 2001 | #1,206 | 169 |
| 2000 | #1,154 | 175 |
| 1999 | #966 | 214 |
| 1998 | #896 | 235 |
| 1997 | #764 | 276 |
| 1996 | #682 | 320 |
| 1995 | #642 | 337 |
| 1994 | #598 | 376 |
| 1993 | #555 | 429 |
| 1992 | #479 | 515 |
| 1991 | #475 | 513 |
| 1990 | #881 | 220 |
| 1989 | #1,750 | 77 |
| 1988 | #2,330 | 47 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 |
| 1985 | #3,246 | 27 |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 |
| 1983 | #2,910 | 29 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #3,002 | 29 |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 |
| 1975 | #2,321 | 35 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | #4,000 | 12 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 |
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| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shelbi! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shelbi
- 7,408 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #7,885)
- 1,661 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #7,885)
- 1,649 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 869 spots in 1990 (#1,750 → #881)
- Biggest drop: 188 spots in 2000 (#966 → #1,154)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1991 at #475 (513 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1990–1999
- Highest: 1 in 3,580 girls born in 1992 were named Shelbi (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #475 in 1991, was only 1 in 3,655 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 62.5% of all girls named Shelbi (3,435) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 57 | #4,000 (1968) | #5,199 |
| 1970s | 222 | #2,321 (1975) | #3,266 |
| 1980s | 359 | #1,750 (1989) | #2,963 |
| 1990s | 3,435 | #475 (1991) | #694 |
| 2000s | 1,080 | #1,154 (2000) | #1,962 |
| 2010s | 292 | #2,870 (2010) | #5,601 |
| 2020s | 51 | #7,630 (2021) | #10,147 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shelbi in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 8,630 of them was named Shelbi, which outranked 94.2% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).