How rare is the name Shellie?

8,193 people in the United States have the first name Shellie, about 1 in 36,865. It ranks #2,823 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

SHELLIE

#2,823

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,193
About
1 in 36,865
This common or more
80.9%
Who bears it

Of the 8,193 people named Shellie, 81.6% reported their origin as White, 10.2% as Black and 3.4% as two or more races. 96.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shellie peaked in 1970, when 423 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18822015
Peak year
1970
Births that year
423
In 2015
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,859 babies have been given the name since 1882. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Shellie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #933. The largest share of babies named Shellie, 46.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#2,05629
1890s#1,578104
1900s#1,676127
1910s#2,084304
1920s#2,679299
1930s#2,739246
1940s#2,441365
1950s#1,4801,279
1960s#9333,467
1970s#1,0342,985
1980s#2,0591,105
1990s#5,145380
2000s#12,814143
2010s#31,27226
Before 19011.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–276.2%
Silent Generation 1928–454.2%
Baby boom 1946–6427.8%
Generation X 1965–8046.6%
Millennials 1981–9611.6%
Generation Z 1997–122.1%
2013 and later0.1%

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 Shellie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shellie has been most common in Utah (5.8×), Idaho (3.9×), and Oregon (2.2×), and least common in Virginia (0.2×).

6,849 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.

Exactly as common as Shellie

1 other first name also has 8,193 people.

#2,823 Elinor · 8,193

Either side of Shellie

#2,822 Aline · 8,195#2,823 Elinor · 8,193#2,825 Armand · 8,191#2,826 Chau · 8,189

Spelled almost the same

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

#690 Shelly · 75,244#774 Shelley · 64,253#1,183 Shelia · 33,324#3,437 Shelli · 6,050#8,817 Shella · 1,621#14,441 Shellee · 816#15,379 Shell · 749#16,017 Sheli · 710

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