Shelba
Shelba is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 341st, in 1937.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1937344 births
- Best rank
- #341in 1937
- Since 1935
- 2,136people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,136 girls have been named Shelba in the United States since 1935, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1937, with 344 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 344 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1930s alone account for 45%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1937, its biggest year
Shelba was the 341st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1937 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Shirley and Betty. See all of 1937.
Names that rose and fell with Shelba
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shelvapeak 1937
- Harlenepeak 1937
- Myrnapeak 1938
- Claudettepeak 1935
- Marlenepeak 1936
- Marylynpeak 1936
- Shirleypeak 1935
- Marvapeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.