Shelene
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ʃelene/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Shelene is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 63K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 480Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 750Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
361 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Shelene 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 | 361 | 1 in 921K | 361 | Shelene | 155 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Shelene | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 482K | — | Shelene | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 820K | — | Shelene | 45 |
| PH Philippines | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Shelene | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 750K | — | Shelene | 22 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Shelene | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 12 | 1 in 63K | 12 | — | 3 |
361 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. 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).
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 361 | #26,023 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 13 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shelene?
- In Spanish /ʃelene/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Shelene a male or female name?
- Shelene is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shelene have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 361 people named Shelene, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shelene.
- Where is Shelene most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shelene is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shelene?
- In the United States, the national register counted 361 people named Shelene in 2020, about 1 in 921 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shelene?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheleneThe 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, “Shelene”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.