How Many People Are Named Shelbie?

5,356

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

About 1 in 63,813 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,580 babies named Shelbie in Social Security records from 1936 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,562

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,991

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Peak Year

1992

450 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 Shelbie in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shelbie alive today is about 30 years old, and 53% are under 30. Half of them were between 23 and 33 in 2025.

Under 30 2,826
52.8%
30 to 59 2,354
44%
60 and over 176
3.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shelbie first appears in the records in 1936 and was given most often in 1992, to 450 babies. In 2025, 13 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1936 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Shelbie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #529, in 1992. In 2025 it ranked #8,277.

Girls
Rank in 2025#8,277
Best rank#529 (1992)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#726 in the 1990s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Shelbie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 608 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shelbie was given 4.1 times as often in Oklahoma, 3.6 times in Utah and 3.3 times in Kentucky.

Texas 608
California 275
Ohio 197
Missouri 172
Florida 168
Louisiana 158
Michigan 149
Oklahoma 149
Kentucky 146
Tennessee 143
Indiana 143
Utah 118
Georgia 108
Illinois 89
Arizona 64
Alabama 61
Mississippi 61
New York 57
Kansas 56
Washington 56
Arkansas 51
Iowa 49
Pennsylvania 39
Oregon 38
Colorado 36
North Carolina 33
Maryland 24
Nebraska 24
Idaho 17
Nevada 10
Wisconsin 8
Minnesota 7

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