Feminine dossier · first seen 1935

Shelba

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Shelba
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1937

Peak rank proxy

344

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1935Peak 19372024

Peak year

1937

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,136

Shelba has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1937, when 344 girls were named Shelba.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,136 Americans have been named Shelba and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1935.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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