girls:
5.5k births since 1961
#2257 (61st percentile)
overall:
5.5k births since 1961
#3684 (52nd percentile)
The name Shelbi is the #3,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,478 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 52.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,257 (60.5% percentile) for all time with 5,478 births since 1961.
Shelbi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (first recorded for girls in 1961). Birth data for Shelbi is available in 60 out of the 62 years between 1961 and 2022. 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, Shelbi reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 50.6% percentile (ranked #425) with 257 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 257 births per million (ranked 50.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shelbi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shelbi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shelbi is pronounced as SHEHL-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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