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Sheldon

Pronounced /ˈʃɛldən/

Rank in 2024
#1,951
Born in 2024
80
Peak year
1992 · #380
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 80 boys were named Sheldon, about 1 in every 21,441.
  • It peaked in 1992 with 608 babies, ranked #380.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1881.
  • 36,626 boys have been named Sheldon since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sheldon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.2
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 3,404 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Silent: 7,556 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,450 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,866 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,638 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,278 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,344 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English scylf (“shelf”) + dūn (“hill”) or denu (“valley”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈʃɛldən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Sheldon, CC BY-SA 4.0.