Shelita
Recorded 1953–1994 · United States
Shelita was most popular in 1974, when 56 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,645 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 966 people named Shelita.
Shelita over time
How old is the name Shelita?
Shelita first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1953, which makes it about 72 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 40 of the 73 years since. It was last recorded in 1994.
How many people are named Shelita?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 966 American births named Shelita between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 906 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shelita in 2025?
Shelita was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Shelita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shelita is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 966 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Shelita?
Roughly 906 Americans named Shelita are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 52 years old, and half are between 46 and 57. That is a narrow band: Shelita arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Shelita is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org