girls:
1.1k births since 1936
#4599 (20th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1936
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1936
#6608 (15th percentile)
The name Shelva is the #6,608 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,131 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 14.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,599 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 1,117 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1936.
Shelva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 . Birth data for Shelva is available in 38 out of the 45 years between 1936 and 1980 (38 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Shelva has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shelva reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 30.6% percentile (ranked #404) with 176 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 176 births per million (ranked 30.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
For boys, Shelva reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #515) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1941.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shelva".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shelva is pronounced as SHEHL-vuh, which has 2 syllables.
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