Girl
Shelley
As a girl's name, Shelley traces back to Old English, where it is understood to mean "Old English place name". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Since 1900, roughly 74,196 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
Old EnglishOld English place name
Etymology"Meadow on a ledge" or "clearing on a bank"
Births by decade
1900s
58
1910s
186
1920s
297
1930s
534
1940s
2,708
1950s
18,531
1960s
25,088
1970s
17,522
1980s
6,899
1990s
1,788
2000s
436
2010s
149
Peaked in the 1960s · 74,196 total U.S. births since 1900