Shelley
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#8,280
up +1,190 places
2025 births
13
up +2 births
All-time births
72,586
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1964
- 2,821 births
- Best rank
- #126
- in 1972
- First recorded
- 1892
- #1,428 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1966
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 114 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 19642,821#143Peak
- 19632,734#148
- 19662,545#140
- 19652,528#148
- 19672,510#141
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #126 in 1972 · peak births 2,821 in 1964
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 2% boys■ 98% girls
1,753 boys · 72,586 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 Shelley has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.