How rare is the name Shelbi?

4,559 people in the United States have the first name Shelbi, about 1 in 66,250. It ranks #4,192 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHELBI

#4,192

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,559
About
1 in 66,250
This common or more
83.7%
Who bears it

Of the 4,559 people named Shelbi, 83.7% reported their origin as White, 6% as Black and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shelbi peaked in 1992, when 515 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19612025
Peak year
1992
Births that year
515
In 2025*
13 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,496 babies have been given the name since 1961. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Shelbi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,199. The largest share of babies named Shelbi, 55.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#8,55457
1970s#5,008222
1980s#4,261359
1990s#1,1993,435
2000s#3,1671,080
2010s#8,161292
2020s#17,86451
Baby boom 1946–640.3%
Generation X 1965–805.3%
Millennials 1981–9655.3%
Generation Z 1997–1235.6%
2013 and later3.4%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shelbi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shelbi has been most common in Louisiana (3.7×), Oklahoma (3.3×), and Montana (2.8×), and least common in New York (0.16×).

3,675 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Shelbi

#4,190 Lynsey · 4,560#4,190 Rio · 4,560#4,193 Sebastien · 4,555#4,194 Lona · 4,554

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shelbi, most common first.

#415 Shelby · 136,597#4,271 Shelbie · 4,451#9,752 Shelba · 1,406#25,632 Shelbe · 369#49,963 Shelbia · 122

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