Shell
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
198
peak year 1965
More common than
72%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1965
- 16 births
- Best rank
- #3,242
- in 1965
- First recorded
- 1951
- #6,106 that year
- Last recorded
- 1986
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1966
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 23 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 196516#3,242Peak
- 196315#3,443
- 196012#3,887
- 196112#3,973
- 196612#3,915
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #3,242 in 1965 · peak births 16 in 1965
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 36% boys■ 64% girls
113 boys · 198 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 Shell has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.