Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Shelma

#27,626 most common girls' name of all time · #44,716 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1937–1966

Rank among girls
#27,626
Rank overall
#44,716 of 105,966
First appeared
1937
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
77
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1938 #2,937
Best rank
#2,937 1938
Girls Boys peak 10/yr
19401960

Shelma first appears in 1937. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1966 7 — 7 #5,507
1962 5 — 5 #7,026
1956 5 — 5 #6,451
1954 5 — 5 #6,224
1948 5 — 5 #5,773
1947 5 — 5 #5,813
1945 5 — 5 #5,092
1943 7 — 7 #4,134
1941 6 — 6 #4,364
1939 9 — 9 #3,136
1938 10 — 10 #2,937
1937 8 — 8 #3,433