Shelden peaked in the US in 1998 at #3,849, and is too rare now to appear in the latest official lists.
Shelden as a boy’s name
US
Canada
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
Canada
2018
#12,156 (5)
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2014
#10,717 (6)
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2012
#10,770 (6)
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2011
#8,767 (8)
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2010
#7,591 (10)
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2009
#9,864 (7)
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2008
#11,037 (6)
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2007
#8,915 (8)
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2006
#6,094 (13)
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2005
#6,634 (11)
#2,263 (5)
2004
#5,813 (13)
#2,191 (5)
2003
#5,035 (15)
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2002
#6,088 (11)
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2001
#6,935 (9)
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2000
#4,389 (17)
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The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1998 at #3,849.
First recorded in the US in 1973.
Spellings
Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.