Feminine dossier · first seen 1936

Shelva

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1937

Peak rank proxy

194

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1936Peak 19372024

Peak year

1937

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,117

Shelva 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 194 girls were named Shelva.

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 1,117 Americans have been named Shelva and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1936.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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