Shelton
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#4,837
up +19 places
2025 births
21
unchanged births
All-time births
11,973
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1972
- 179 births
- Best rank
- #544
- in 1937
- First recorded
- 1880
- #797 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1966
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 142 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1972179#598Peak
- 1975168#624
- 1971166#640
- 1958161#607
- 1969161#619
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #544 in 1937 · peak births 179 in 1972
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
11,973 boys · 172 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 Shelton has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.