Recorded 1882–2015 · United States
Shellie was most popular in 1970, when 423 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 10,859 people named Shellie.
Shellie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1882, which makes it about 143 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 128 of the 144 years since. It was last recorded in 2015.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 10,859 American births named Shellie 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 8,836 are estimated to be alive today.
Shellie 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.
Shellie is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Shellie is mostly a girl’s name — 91.8% of the 10,859 Americans given it were girls and 8.2% were boys. It changed hands: since 1943 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that.
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 8,836 Americans named Shellie are alive today — 81% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 56 years old, and half are between 50 and 63.
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