girls:
966 births since 1968
#4750 (17th percentile)
overall:
966 births since 1968
#6773 (12th percentile)
The name Shalena is the #6,773 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 966 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 12.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,750 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 966 births since 1968.
Shalena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Shalena is available in 41 out of the 41 years between 1968 and 2008. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Shalena reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #726) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shalena".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shalena is pronounced as shuh-LEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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