Meaning and history
Shelton is a surname derived from a place name meaning “shelf town” in Old English.
20062006: 98 births, rank #1,526
2007: 83 births, rank #1,772
2008: 73 births, rank #1,948
2009: 66 births, rank #2,077
2010: 60 births, rank #2,187
20112011: 73 births, rank #1,905
2012: 62 births, rank #2,155
2013: 58 births, rank #2,225
2014: 55 births, rank #2,345
2015: 62 births, rank #2,189
20162016: 40 births, rank #2,935
2017: 47 births, rank #2,637
2018: 25 births, rank #4,094
2019: 31 births, rank #3,571
2020: 32 births, rank #3,418
20212021: 29 births, rank #3,740
2022: 24 births, rank #4,303
2023: 25 births, rank #4,220
2024: 21 births, rank #4,701
20252025: 21 births, rank #4,707
Shelton moved from #947 to #973 for boys between 1994 and 1996. Its highest annual birth count came in 1972, with 179 births.