girls:
896 births since 1981
#4820 (16th percentile)
overall:
896 births since 1981
#6843 (12th percentile)
The name Shelbey is the #6,843 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 896 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 11.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,820 (15.6% percentile) for all time with 896 births since 1981.
Shelbey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (first recorded for girls in 1981). Birth data for Shelbey is available in 30 out of the 34 years between 1981 and 2014. 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, Shelbey reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 10.4% percentile (ranked #770) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 47 births per million (ranked 10.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shelbey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shelbey is pronounced as SHEHL-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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