Shelton
Shelton is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 544th, in 1937.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1972179 births
- Best rank
- #544in 1937
- Since 1880
- 11,950people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,950 boys have been named Shelton in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 179 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1970s alone account for 13%. It has spent 102 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Shelton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 61 | |
| 1890s | 55 | |
| 1900s | 103 | |
| 1910s | 478 | |
| 1920s | 777 | |
| 1930s | 834 | |
| 1940s | 1,107 | |
| 1950s | 1,361 | |
| 1960s | 1,483 | |
| 1970s | 1,511 | |
| 1980s | 1,246 | |
| 1990s | 1,358 | |
| 2000s | 934 | |
| 2010s | 513 | |
| 2020s | 129 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Shelton was the 598th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1972 were Michael, Christopher, James, David and John. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Shelton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Byronpeak 1964
- Manuelpeak 2005
- Peterpeak 1957
- Victorpeak 1990
- Alfonsopeak 1991
- Carltonpeak 1957
- Curtispeak 1962
- Philippeak 1953
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.