girls:
7k births since 1945
#1965 (66th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1945
#3226 (58th percentile)
The name Shelli is the #3,226 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,983 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 58.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,965 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 6,983 births since 1945.
Shelli first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (first recorded for girls in 1945). Birth data for Shelli is available in 62 out of the 66 years between 1945 and 2010. 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, Shelli reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 41.9% percentile (ranked #456) with 197 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 232 births per million (ranked 41.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shelli".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shelli. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shelli is pronounced as SHEH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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