How Many People Are Named Shelli?

6,347

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

About 1 in 53,849 people in the US has this name

Based on 6,983 babies named Shelli in Social Security records from 1945 to 2010, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,226

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,806

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Peak Year

1968

396 births

Trend

2010

Last year given

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Shelli alive today is about 55 years old, and 67% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 50 and 61 in 2025.

Under 30 96
1.5%
30 to 59 4,250
67%
60 and over 2,002
31.5%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Shelli first appears in the records in 1945 and was given most often in 1968, to 396 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2010.

Babies given the name each year, 1945 to 2010

🏆 Rank History

Shelli has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #485, in 1968.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#485 (1968)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#550 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Shelli were born in California than in any other state: about 794 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shelli was given 5.1 times as often in Oklahoma, 4 times in Idaho and 3.5 times in Nebraska.

California 794
Texas 536
Ohio 308
Oklahoma 253
Michigan 244
Washington 199
Illinois 196
Indiana 190
Pennsylvania 152
Iowa 151
Missouri 131
Kansas 124
Oregon 113
Nebraska 108
Minnesota 105
Louisiana 96
Wisconsin 94
Colorado 94
New York 79
Utah 70
Idaho 58
Florida 57
Georgia 43
Arkansas 32
Massachusetts 23
Kentucky 22
Alabama 20
North Carolina 17
Arizona 16
Tennessee 15
Virginia 13
South Dakota 12
Montana 9
New Jersey 9
Maine 6
South Carolina 5
Connecticut 5
Maryland 5
North Dakota 4

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