How rare is the name Shelbie?

4,451 people in the United States have the first name Shelbie, about 1 in 67,857. It ranks #4,271 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHELBIE

#4,271

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,451
About
1 in 67,857
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,451 people named Shelbie, 85.5% reported their origin as White, 5% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.8% as two or more races. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shelbie peaked in 1992, when 450 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19362025
Peak year
1992
Births that year
450
In 2025*
13 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,580 babies have been given the name since 1936. 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.

Shelbie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,315. The largest share of babies named Shelbie, 44.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1930s#4,428111
1940s#5,27892
1950s#8,32746
1960s#6,471100
1970s#5,339201
1980s#5,123276
1990s#1,3153,010
2000s#2,8171,270
2010s#6,639393
2020s#13,37881
Silent Generation 1928–453.1%
Baby boom 1946–642.2%
Generation X 1965–804.9%
Millennials 1981–9644.5%
Generation Z 1997–1240.1%
2013 and later5.1%

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 Shelbie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shelbie has been most common in Utah (4.3×), Oklahoma (3.3×), and Louisiana (2.6×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.22×).

3,390 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 Shelbie

#4,269 Karthik · 4,452#4,269 Vikram · 4,452#4,272 Carlotta · 4,448#4,272 Francois · 4,448

Spelled almost the same

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

#415 Shelby · 136,597#4,192 Shelbi · 4,559#9,752 Shelba · 1,406#13,586 Shelbey · 885#19,527 Shelbee · 540#25,632 Shelbe · 369#30,168 Shelvia · 290#31,941 Shelvie · 266

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