Shelly-Ann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɫiæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shelly-Ann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 404K(measured from records)
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 8K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
823 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shellyann in US United States, JM Jamaica, GY Guyana.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shelly-Ann counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 823 | 1 in 404K | 820 | Shellyann | 136 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Shelly-Ann | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | #397 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Shellyann | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 994K | — | Shelly-Ann | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Shelly-Ann | 52 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 741K | — | Shelly-Ann | 34 |
| GY Guyana | — | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | Shellyann | 1 |
| BB Barbados | #256 | — | — | 1 | Shelly-Ann | 7 |
823 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryceb. 1986JMnot in their usual nameJamaican track and field sprinter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #591 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 1 | #27 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shelly-Ann?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɫiæn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shelly-Ann a male or female name?
- Shelly-Ann is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shelly-Ann have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 823 people named Shelly-Ann, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shellyann.
- How common is the name Shelly-Ann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 823 people named Shelly-Ann in 2020, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.
- How common is Shelly-Ann compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Shelly-Ann is the 256th most common given name of 1,425 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shelly-Ann?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shelly-annThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shelly-Ann” — the 256th most common given name in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.