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Shelli

The girl's name Shelli has been in the national records since 1945, with 6,983 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 6,300 Shellis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Shelli

By the numbers

Total US births
6,983
Estimated living today
6,300
Median age today
56
Peak year
1968
Best rank
484th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1945

How old the living Shellis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,983 babies given the name since 1945, about 6,300 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 7 of them are children and 630 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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 Shelli is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Shelli is most concentrated in Oklahoma (4.1×), Idaho (3.3×), Nebraska (3.3×), Washington (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1968

The most popular girls’ names the year Shelli peaked:

All the names of 1968

Related names

Shelli 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.