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Shelley
Pronounced /ˈʃɛli/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1951 · #1058
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:11 in 2024 (#9,012)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Shelley in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1951 with 46 babies, ranked #1058.
- It first shows up in the records in 1893.
- 1,753 boys 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
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 363 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 342 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 532 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 364 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 89 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.