How rare is the name Shelli?

6,050 people in the United States have the first name Shelli, about 1 in 49,923. It ranks #3,437 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

SHELLI

#3,437

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,050
About
1 in 49,923
This common or more
82.4%
Who bears it

Of the 6,050 people named Shelli, 89.3% reported their origin as White, 3.7% as Black and 3.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shelli peaked in 1968, when 396 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452010
Peak year
1968
Births that year
396
In 2010
7 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,983 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shelli by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #973. The largest share of babies named Shelli, 58%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#7,74737
1950s#2,298544
1960s#9733,217
1970s#1,2612,149
1980s#2,566769
1990s#7,672216
2000s#25,07344
2010s#43,4487
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–6429%
Generation X 1965–8058%
Millennials 1981–9611.8%
Generation Z 1997–121.2%

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

Where Shelli is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shelli has been most common in Oklahoma (4.2×), Idaho (3.3×), and Nebraska (3.3×), and least common in New York (0.23×).

4,861 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 Shelli

#3,435 Irena · 6,054#3,436 Westley · 6,052#3,438 Feng · 6,049#3,439 Yasmeen · 6,048

Spelled almost the same

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

#690 Shelly · 75,244#2,823 Shellie · 8,193#8,817 Shella · 1,621#15,379 Shell · 749#16,017 Sheli · 710#18,554 Shelle · 580#31,866 Shellia · 267

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