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Shelly

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1950 · #927
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:30 in 2024 (#4,562)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Shelly in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1950 with 55 babies, ranked #927.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1882.
  • 2,190 boys have been named Shelly since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
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    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 348 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 492 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 671 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 481 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 106 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly pre-1930 usage.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, variant of Shelley.
Origin
Not recorded
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Shelly, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Shelley

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
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    1880peak 19512024