Sheldon Boy Name

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The name Sheldon is of English origin, and means steep valley. The table below indicates the number of times the name Sheldon 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 Sheldon**
Use of the Name Sheldon for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
33,495	19,078	9,515	3,520	1,355	462	234

The table below indicates the number of times the name Sheldon has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Sheldon first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first 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 Sheldon**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	772	7
1882
1883
1884	834	7
1885
1886
1887	906	6
1888
1889	960	6
1890
1891
1892	788	9
1893
1894
1895
1896	886	8
1897	929	7
1898
1899
1900	730	13
1901	676	11
1902	788	10
1903	773	10
1904	718	12
1905
1906	584	17
1907	695	15
1908	679	16
1909	672	17
1910	815	15
1911	622	25
1912	464	73
1913	571	59
1914	518	90
1915	494	126
1916	490	135
1917	472	147
1918	457	169
1919	412	201
1920	425	199
1921	406	223
1922	397	231
1923	381	243
1924	328	312
1925	317	324
1926	304	351
1927	302	368
1928	278	420
1929	277	402
1930	281	409
1931	275	406
1932	265	423
1933	253	428
1934	250	462
1935	249	465
1936	248	451
1937	258	437
1938	262	438
1939	285	373
1940	287	382
1941	284	413
1942	292	433
1943	286	452
1944	310	383
1945	312	364
1946	323	393
1947	333	426
1948	336	401
1949	347	373
1950	336	403
1951	380	317
1952	354	370
1953	391	322
1954	354	409
1955	383	353
1956	365	410
1957	373	426
1958	385	411
1959	409	376
1960	401	390
1961	394	407
1962	384	435
1963	403	398
1964	394	409
1965	394	398
1966	384	393
1967	381	392
1968	390	400
1969	390	408
1970	392	416
1971	412	381
1972	441	325
1973	426	336
1974	410	362
1975	400	368
1976	391	391
1977	430	340
1978	450	315
1979	449	323
1980	469	320
1981	463	323
1982	513	273
1983	491	294
1984	479	305
1985	482	324
1986	465	350
1987	461	366
1988	463	386
1989	484	391
1990	441	501
1991	415	547
1992	380	606
1993	446	489
1994	437	520
1995	459	491
1996	475	458
1997	476	453
1998	518	401
1999	553	362
2000	623	301
2001	600	327
2002	685	265
2003	769	228
2004	766	234
Totals:		33,495		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Sheldon as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Sheldon appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 111 times during the last 125 years.

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