Name: Sheldon

Gender: Male

Usage: Sheldon is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Sheldon are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.

Name Meaning of Sheldon

Meaning: The meaning of the name Sheldon is: Protected hill, Town in the valley.

Please feel free to read what others say about this name and to share your comments if you have more information.

N.B. Sometimes it happens that another name has the same meaning. There is nothing surprising in this: both names have the same origin or the same numbers of numerology.

Name Compatibility Test

To test the compatibility of the name Sheldon with another, enter a name here and click Name Compatibility

You will get a result that shows how much the two names match up.

Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Sheldon: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond

Learn more with our free Numerology Tool

Popularity of the Name

The name Sheldon is ranked on the 1,417th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.

We estimate that there are at least 329900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.005% of the population. The name Sheldon has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Sheldon for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

Name Day Calendar

We do not have a name day for Sheldon.

For other names check our Name Day Calendar

History and Origin

Sheldon is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name:

  • Sheldon Adelson, American billionaire businessman
  • Sheldon Blockburger (b. 1964), American decathlete
  • Sheldon Brown (artist) (b. 1962), artist and professor of computer art
  • Sheldon Brown (football player) (b. 1979), professional American football player
  • Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic) (1944 – 2008), bicycle mechanic, writer, and webmaster
  • Sheldon Drobny, investor
  • Sheldon Glashow, 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Sheldon Jackson, 19th century missionary
  • Sheldon Jackson, Gujarati Cricketer
  • Sheldon Leonard, actor
  • Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the New York State Assembly
  • Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, cartoonist, and children's book author
  • Sheldon Whitehouse, Democratic United States Senator from Rhode Island (2007-)
  • Sheldon Brookbank, hockey player
  • Sheldon Kennedy, hockey player
  • Sheldon Souray, hockey player

Surname:

  • Alexander Sheldon (1766–1832), Speaker of the New York State Assembly
  • Brooke E. Sheldon (1931–2013), American librarian
  • Charles Sheldon, American Congregationalist minister
  • Charles H. Sheldon, American politician
  • Chris Sheldon, record producer
  • David Sheldon, American wrestler
  • Donald Sheldon, Alaskan bush pilot
  • Edward Sheldon, American dramatist
  • Fred Sheldon (disambiguation), various people
  • Gene Sheldon (Eugene Hume), American pantomime actor
  • George L. Sheldon, American politician
  • Gilbert Sheldon, (1598–1677), Archbishop of Canterbury and builder of the Sheldonian Theatre
  • Henry D. Sheldon, American educator
  • Ingrid Sheldon, American politician
  • Jack Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter
  • Lee Sheldon (writer), game developer and writer
  • Lewis Sheldon, American triple jumper
  • Lou Sheldon, American Presbyterian pastor and activist
  • Oliver Sheldon, British businessman
  • Roland Sheldon, American former MLB Baseball player
  • Sam Sheldon, Australian rules footballer
  • Scott Sheldon, American baseball player
  • Sidney Sheldon, American screenwriter and novelist
  • Stagger Lee Sheldon, American murderer
  • William Herbert Sheldon, (1899–1977), American psychologist
  • William Wallace Barbour Sheldon (1836–1915), American architect
  • Wilmon Henry Sheldon (1875–1981), American philosopher

Fictional characters:

  • Paul Sheldon, fictional character from the novel Misery
  • Sheldon Cooper, fictional character from the American comedy The Big Bang Theory
  • Sheldon Lee, a fictional character in My Life as a Teenage Robot
  • Sheldon Plankton, a character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Sheldon Mopes, protagonist of the 2002 film Death to Smoochy
  • Sheldon (webcomic), a daily webcomic created by Dave Kellett.
  • Sheldon, a young seahorse in the Pixar animated movie Finding Nemo
  • Sheldon Hawkes, detective/doctor in CSI: NY
  • Sheldon, a chick inside an egg shell in the comic strip U.S. Acres
  • Sheldon, a magical "sea genie" in the Sid and Marty Krofft produced TV series Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
  • Shelldon, snail in the animated series of the same title

Animals

  • Sheldon, a chimpanzee that was featured in several books and documentaries

English: transferred use of the surname, which originated as a local name from any of various places so called. Examples occur in Derbyshire, Devon, and the West Midlands; they all have different origins.

The section "History and Origin" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Sheldon (name)"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Comments

We always try to deliver a high-quality service to our customers. If you consider the information on this page is incomplete or incorrect, please post a comment below. Thank you!