How Many People Are Named Shelbi?

5,388

people named Shelbi are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 63,434 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,496 babies named Shelbi in Social Security records from 1961 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,546

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,983

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Peak Year

1992

515 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Shelbi in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shelbi alive today is about 29 years old, and 54% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 25 and 33 in 2025.

Under 30 2,439
45.3%
30 to 59 2,933
54.4%
60 and over 17
0.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shelbi first appears in the records in 1961 and was given most often in 1992, to 515 babies. In 2025, 13 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1961 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Shelbi has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #475, in 1991. In 2025 it ranked #8,276.

Girls
Rank in 2025#8,276
Best rank#475 (1991)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#655 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Shelbi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Shelbi were born in Texas than in any other state: about 773 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shelbi was given 4.6 times as often in Louisiana, 4.3 times in Oklahoma and 2.8 times in Kentucky.

Texas 773
California 323
Louisiana 246
Indiana 202
Ohio 192
Florida 189
Oklahoma 166
Missouri 150
Illinois 132
Kentucky 132
Michigan 130
Tennessee 129
Georgia 69
Kansas 64
Utah 60
Arkansas 58
Iowa 52
Arizona 51
Colorado 51
Alabama 50
New York 46
Mississippi 46
Washington 44
Pennsylvania 37
Nebraska 37
Montana 31
North Carolina 28
Maryland 24
Minnesota 22
Oregon 20
Wisconsin 11
Nevada 10
Virginia 10
South Carolina 5
South Dakota 5
Massachusetts 5
Hawaii 5
New Mexico 5

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