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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shelba

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

2,136

peak year 1937

More common than

94%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1937
344 births
Best rank
#341
in 1937
First recorded
1935
#4,145 that year
Last recorded
1982
no later published record
Average birth year
1944
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
43 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1937344#341Peak
  2. 1938254#422
  3. 1939200#472
  4. 1940174#521
  5. 1936166#506

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #341 in 1937 · peak births 344 in 1937

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

5 boys · 2,136 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Shelba has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.