Shelba

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.

Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list

Shelba by the numbers

Its American peak was 344 babies in 1937, making it a 1930s name.

What we can tell you about Shelba

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shelba. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Shelbywillow farm or ledge farm864 in the US (2017)
  • Sheliafairy woman; a form of Síle16 in the US (2017)
  • Shebaoath; seven8 in the US (2017)
  • Shelbi14 in the US (2017)
  • Shelva
  • Stellastar5,038 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Shelba

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