Shasta
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 99.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 227 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,320since 1926
Shasta over time
Rank among girls' names. Shasta has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | — | |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | — | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | — | |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,267 | 32 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,776 | 44 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,340 | 56 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,125 | 63 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,810 | 79 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,922 | 73 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,507 | 104 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,478 | 107 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,257 | 130 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,100 | 152 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,164 | 131 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,075 | 142 | — | |
| 1986 | #984 | 160 | — | |
| 1985 | #907 | 174 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #821 | 191 | — | |
| 1983 | #802 | 194 | — | |
| 1982 | #817 | 192 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #722 | 228 | — | |
| 1980 | #752 | 220 | — | |
| 1979 | #716 | 235 | — | |
| 1978 | #698 | 227 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #918 | 153 | — | |
| 1976 | #861 | 158 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,316 | 83 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,438 | 70 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,510 | 62 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,771 | 49 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,546 | 63 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,930 | 10 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
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| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shasta! It came in at #4,851, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1926–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shasta
- 5,996 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #14,942)
- 146 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #14,942)
- 7,329 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 455 spots in 1976 (#1,316 → #861)
- Biggest drop: 95 spots in 1982 (#722 → #817)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1978 at #698 (227 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1976–1986
- Highest: 1 in 6,748 girls born in 1978 were named Shasta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.3% of all girls named Shasta (1,784) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,851 (1926) | #4,851 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 8 | #3,883 (1948) | #3,883 |
| 1950s | 93 | #2,889 (1954) | #4,078 |
| 1960s | 102 | #3,357 (1960) | #4,410 |
| 1970s | 1,119 | #698 (1978) | #1,409 |
| 1980s | 1,784 | #722 (1981) | #914 |
| 1990s | 764 | #1,257 (1990) | #2,035 |
| 2000s | 277 | #2,854 (2000) | #5,112 |
| 2010s | 124 | #7,092 (2017) | #9,047 |
| 2020s | 44 | #8,946 (2024) | #12,264 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shasta in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 9,890 of them was named Shasta, which outranked 92.7% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #901Marta176
- #905Carey175
- #905Cristin175
- #907Shasta174
- #907Adriane174
- #907Jazmine174
- #907Maira174
- #913Gena173
- #913Jada173
- #913Krysten173
Tied with 5 names at #907; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 369,642 of them was named Shasta, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,063 names at #6,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.