girls:
966 births since 1953
#4750 (17th percentile)
overall:
966 births since 1953
#6773 (12th percentile)
The name Shelita 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 1953. 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 1953.
Shelita first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for girls in 1953). Birth data for Shelita is available in 40 out of the 42 years between 1953 and 1994. 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, Shelita reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #695) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shelita".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shelita. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Shelita is pronounced as shuh-LEE-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sheh-LEE-tuh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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