Recorded 1945–2010 · United States
Shelli was most popular in 1968, when 396 American babies were given the name — ranking #861 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 6,983 people named Shelli.
Shelli first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1945, which makes it about 80 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 62 of the 81 years since. It was last recorded in 2010.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 6,983 American births named Shelli 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 6,410 are estimated to be alive today.
Shelli 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.
Across the whole record Shelli is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 6,983 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.
Roughly 6,410 Americans named Shelli are alive today — 92% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 57 years old, and half are between 51 and 62. That is a narrow band: Shelli 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.
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