Shelene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shelene has been given to 321 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 26 recorded.
Babies named Shelene, 1995
1 in 523,000
Shelene over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shelene?
Shelene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,660,254 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,443 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shelene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,443 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shelene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shelenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shelene was born before 1970 — so the typical Shelene is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 321
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (134).
Is Shelene rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1970 (26)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shelene
Shelene is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 81.0% against Shelene's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Shelene is used
Across 1910–2025, Shelene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,855,578 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Washington1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shelene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shelene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shelene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shelene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.