Shellie · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Shellie.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1888

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 77 recorded years as a table

Shellie, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1888	41
1890	63
1894	52
1895	68
1896	59
1900	60
1902	41
1903	42
1904	55
1905	45
1906	38
1907	34
1908	45
1910	57
1911	22
1912	30
1913	25
1914	38
1915	14
1916	16
1917	24
1918	18
1919	20
1920	23
1921	23
1922	21
1923	13
1924	15
1925	14
1926	23
1927	16
1928	6
1929	12
1930	16
1931	15
1932	20
1933	16
1934	15
1935	10
1936	11
1937	12
1938	13
1939	9
1940	14
1941	14
1942	10
1943	6
1944	4
1945	6
1946	5
1947	8
1948	8
1949	7
1950	10
1951	5
1952	8
1953	4
1954	3
1955	6
1956	6
1957	6
1958	4
1959	4
1962	3
1963	5
1964	6
1965	5
1967	3
1968	3
1969	4
1971	3
1972	4
1973	6
1974	4
1975	3
1977	5
1986	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Shellie isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Shellie

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1986: 5
Rank in 1986: #6,721
How rare: 1 in 368,303 boys
Since 1888: 892

Shellie was last recorded in 1986. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1895, at 68 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Shellie doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.