Shelda Popularity by Year

Follow Shelda across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Shelda birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1988	Girls	5	#11,798	Down 3,751 places
1983	Girls	7	#8,047	Up 1,048 places
1980	Girls	6	#9,095	Up 1,115 places
1979	Girls	5	#10,210	Down 3,599 places
1976	Girls	8	#6,611	Up 1,373 places
1975	Girls	6	#7,984	Down 3,264 places
1974	Girls	12	#4,720	Down 134 places
1973	Girls	12	#4,586	Up 1,972 places
1972	Girls	7	#6,558	Down 2,024 places
1971	Girls	12	#4,534	Up 227 places
1970	Girls	11	#4,761	Up 1,213 places
1969	Girls	7	#5,974	Down 827 places
1968	Girls	8	#5,147	Down 1,302 places
1967	Girls	12	#3,845	Up 353 places
1966	Girls	10	#4,198	Down 1,454 places
1965	Girls	20	#2,744	Down 69 places
1964	Girls	22	#2,675	Up 783 places
1963	Girls	14	#3,458	Up 134 places
1962	Girls	13	#3,592	Down 919 places
1961	Girls	21	#2,673	Up 56 places
1960	Girls	20	#2,729	Up 251 places
1959	Girls	16	#2,980	Down 8 places
1958	Girls	16	#2,972	Up 61 places
1957	Girls	15	#3,033	Up 1,128 places
1956	Girls	9	#4,161	Down 936 places
1955	Girls	13	#3,225	Down 446 places
1954	Girls	16	#2,779	Up 1,447 places
1953	Girls	8	#4,226	Down 1,305 places
1952	Girls	14	#2,921	Down 530 places
1951	Girls	18	#2,391	Up 1,032 places
1950	Girls	10	#3,423	Down 424 places
1949	Girls	12	#2,999	Up 138 places
1948	Girls	11	#3,137	Down 368 places
1947	Girls	14	#2,769	Down 30 places
1946	Girls	13	#2,739	Up 3 places
1945	Girls	11	#2,742	Up 397 places
1944	Girls	9	#3,139	Down 99 places
1943	Girls	10	#3,040	Up 698 places
1942	Girls	7	#3,738	Down 2,237 places
1941	Girls	27	#1,501	Up 796 places
1940	Girls	13	#2,297	Down 91 places
1939	Girls	14	#2,206	Down 333 places
1938	Girls	18	#1,873	Up 697 places
1937	Girls	11	#2,570	Down 538 places
1936	Girls	15	#2,032	Up 543 places
1935	Girls	11	#2,575	—