Girl · #5722 in 2025

Shelly

Shelly: popularity and trends since 1880

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Shelly per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 1966. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Shelly has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at under 1% of its 1966 peak.

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.