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Shelley
Pronounced /ˈʃɛli/
Rank in 2024
#9,012
Born in 2024
11
Peak year
1964 · #143
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 11 girls were named Shelley, about 1 in every 146,653.
- It peaked in 1964 with 2,821 babies, ranked #143.
- It first shows up in the records in 1892.
- 72,573 girls have been named Shelley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Shelley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.9Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 105 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 1,018 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Boomers: 32,383 babies, 0.90 per 1,000. Gen X: 30,959 babies, 1.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,156 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Z: 786 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 155 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English, meaning "clearing on a bank".
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly before 1930 usage.
- (rare) A diminutive of the male given name Sheldon.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle.
- A diminutive of the female given name Rochelle.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈʃɛli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Shelley, CC BY-SA 4.0.