girls:
332 births since 1936
#5384 (6th percentile)
boys:
64 births since 1925
#4522 (1st percentile)
overall:
396 births since 1925
#7343 (5th percentile)
The name Shelvy is the #7,343 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 396 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,384 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 332 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,522 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1925.
Shelvy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for boys and 1936 for girls). Birth data for Shelvy is available in 26 out of the 69 years between 1925 and 1993 (23 years for girls and 11 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 Shelvy has been given predominantly to girls, with 83.8% of all recorded births being female. In 1993, 0.0% of babies named Shelvy were girls.
For girls, Shelvy reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #544) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 39 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1965.
For boys, Shelvy reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #543) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shelvy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shelvy is pronounced as SHEHL-vee, which has 2 syllables.
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