Shelba
About 2,141 American babies have been named Shelba since 1935, most of them around 1937. It has not appeared in the national data since 1982. About 1,100 Shelbas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 82.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,141
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 82
- Peak year
- 1937
- Best rank
- 340th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1935
- Girls / boys
- 2,136 / 5
How old the living Shelbas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,141 babies given the name since 1935, about 1,100 are alive — 52 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 950 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1943 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Shelba is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shelba is most concentrated in West Virginia (10.1×), Arkansas (8.3×), North Carolina (5.9×), Alabama (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1937
The most popular girls’ names the year Shelba peaked:
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Shelba against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.