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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shelly

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#5,884

down −1,234 places

2025 births

21

down −9 births

All-time births

84,420

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
4,080 births
Best rank
#89
in 1966
First recorded
1916
#5,059 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1970
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
103 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19644,080#101Peak
  2. 19663,856#89
  3. 19653,850#98
  4. 19633,790#117
  5. 19703,751#103

Rank over time

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

Best rank #89 in 1966 · peak births 4,080 in 1964

Boys and girls

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

● 3% boys■ 97% girls

2,190 boys · 84,420 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 Shelly has ranked, decade by decade

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