Sheldon
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#2,788
down −835 places
2025 births
46
down −35 births
All-time births
36,676
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1992
- 608 births
- Best rank
- #247
- in 1936
- First recorded
- 1881
- #772 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1965
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 138 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1992608#380Peak
- 1991547#415
- 1994520#438
- 1990501#441
- 1995493#459
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #247 in 1936 · peak births 608 in 1992
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
36,676 boys · 496 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 Sheldon has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.