Shella
Shella is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195942 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1909
- 1,129people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,129 girls have been named Shella in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 42 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 27%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Shella | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 14 | |
| 1920s | 28 | |
| 1930s | 43 | |
| 1940s | 81 | |
| 1950s | 241 | |
| 1960s | 303 | |
| 1970s | 205 | |
| 1980s | 116 | |
| 1990s | 69 | |
| 2000s | 11 | |
| 2010s | 6 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Shella was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Shella
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeaninepeak 1960
- Nildapeak 1957
- Ranaepeak 1962
- Doriepeak 1962
- Jonettepeak 1962
- Colleenpeak 1964
- Lenettepeak 1960
- Lynettapeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
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.