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Shelley Boy Name


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Shelley name image The table below indicates the number of times the name Shelley has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Shelley
Use of the Name Shelley for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
42000000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Shelley has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Shelley first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1893, which is the first year shown on the table.  Shelley last appeared in either or both of these name lists during 1993, the last year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Shelley
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
18938238  
1894    
18959697  
1896    
1897    
1898    
18997729  
19009639  
1901    
1902    
1903    
1904    
1905    
19069149  
1907    
1908    
1909    
1910    
1911    
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1917    
1918    
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1926    
1927    
1928    
1929    
1930    
1931    
1932    
1933    
1934    
1935    
1936    
1937    
1938    
1939  92958
1940  91063
1941    
1942  76499
1943  738111
1944  642132
1945  562172
1946  571195
1947  576220
1948  391411
1949  2331,016
1950  1701,667
1951  1661,845
1952  1641,885
1953  1681,936
1954  1612,178
1955  1921,732
1956  1961,680
1957  2001,718
1958  1961,722
1959  1921,846
1960  1822,140
1961  1802,139
1962  1622,478
1963  1482,731
1964  1432,820
1965  1482,528
1966  1402,545
1967  1422,509
1968  1292,482
1969  1352,474
1970  1442,352
1971  1412,270
1972  1262,386
1973  1282,257
1974  1421,997
1975  1701,548
1976  1941,274
1977  2261,101
1978  2381,030
1979  2431,065
1980  2251,132
1981  272910
1982  287846
1983  300777
1984  331705
1985  395570
1986  400564
1987  440504
1988  521424
1989  578380
1990  703300
1991  799257
1992  779265
1993  869223
Totals:  42 70,669

During the last 125 years, parents have used Shelley as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Shelley appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 5 times during the last 125 years.


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