Shea
#1,150 for girls in 2025, 201 births · #1,547 for boys in 2025, 111 births
Given to girls 59.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 309 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,565since 1950
Shea over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,150 | 201 | #1,547 | 111 |
| 2024 | #1,188 | 201 | #1,494 | 120 |
| 2023 | #1,024 | 247 | #1,323 | 144 |
| 2022 | #1,043 | 245 | #1,457 | 124 |
| 2021 | #1,042 | 242 | #1,339 | 138 |
| 2020 | #1,145 | 207 | #1,503 | 112 |
| 2019 | #1,164 | 205 | #1,413 | 124 |
| 2018 | #1,210 | 195 | #1,478 | 117 |
| 2017 | #1,282 | 184 | #1,384 | 127 |
| 2016 | #1,098 | 234 | #1,599 | 102 |
| 2015 | #1,275 | 191 | #1,599 | 100 |
| 2014 | #1,186 | 206 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2013 | #1,220 | 197 | #1,528 | 105 |
| 2012 | #1,364 | 171 | #1,336 | 127 |
| 2011 | #1,345 | 172 | #1,193 | 148 |
| 2010 | #1,218 | 199 | #1,372 | 123 |
| 2009 | #1,032 | 252 | #1,148 | 159 |
| 2008 | #962 | 278 | #1,303 | 133 |
| 2007 | #923 | 293 | #1,092 | 167 |
| 2006 | #897 | 296 | #980 | 189 |
| 2005 | #763 | 348 | #953 | 183 |
| 2004 | #784 | 329 | #888 | 195 |
| 2003 | #778 | 318 | #845 | 205 |
| 2002 | #796 | 294 | #781 | 221 |
| 2001 | #734 | 327 | #858 | 187 |
| 2000 | #723 | 321 | #932 | 163 |
| 1999 | #784 | 281 | #951 | 152 |
| 1998 | #702 | 315 | #999 | 137 |
| 1997 | #698 | 309 | #814 | 180 |
| 1996 | #737 | 286 | #882 | 155 |
| 1995 | #773 | 260 | #783 | 187 |
| 1994 | #724 | 287 | #745 | 197 |
| 1993 | #821 | 243 | #810 | 170 |
| 1992 | #765 | 272 | #783 | 178 |
| 1991 | #773 | 266 | #759 | 181 |
| 1990 | #863 | 228 | #681 | 221 |
| 1989 | #822 | 231 | #676 | 218 |
| 1988 | #740 | 253 | #598 | 245 |
| 1987 | #775 | 229 | #562 | 261 |
| 1986 | #815 | 206 | #529 | 280 |
| 1985 | #842 | 193 | #573 | 234 |
| 1984 | #855 | 179 | #538 | 257 |
| 1983 | #1,127 | 119 | #848 | 106 |
| 1982 | #1,079 | 132 | #853 | 108 |
| 1981 | #1,050 | 136 | #865 | 105 |
| 1980 | #959 | 154 | #819 | 115 |
| 1979 | #959 | 151 | #895 | 95 |
| 1978 | #1,046 | 130 | #847 | 102 |
| 1977 | #1,097 | 118 | #875 | 93 |
| 1976 | #1,086 | 112 | #825 | 103 |
| 1975 | #1,022 | 118 | #792 | 110 |
| 1974 | #847 | 155 | #793 | 102 |
| 1973 | #947 | 127 | #829 | 92 |
| 1972 | #967 | 125 | #968 | 70 |
| 1971 | #988 | 127 | #1,014 | 64 |
| 1970 | #1,069 | 114 | #951 | 71 |
| 1969 | #1,259 | 79 | #1,168 | 45 |
| 1968 | #1,834 | 42 | #1,131 | 44 |
| 1967 | #1,751 | 43 | #1,609 | 23 |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 | #2,043 | 15 |
| 1965 | #2,684 | 21 | #2,178 | 14 |
| 1964 | #2,475 | 25 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | #2,504 | 11 |
| 1961 | #3,608 | 13 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Shea! It came in at #4,315, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Shea
- 38 spots since 2024 (#1,188 → #1,150)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#1,145 → #1,150)
- 125 spots since 2015 (#1,275 → #1,150)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 1984 (#1,127 → #855)
- Biggest drop: 175 spots in 1975 (#847 → #1,022)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1997 at #698 (309 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1984–2008
- Highest: 1 in 5,310 girls born in 2005 were named Shea (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,996 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #698 in 1997, was only 1 in 5,633 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all girls named Shea (3,056) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1987, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 64 | #3,827 (1959) | #4,392 |
| 1960s | 292 | #1,259 (1969) | #2,759 |
| 1970s | 1,277 | #847 (1974) | #1,003 |
| 1980s | 1,832 | #740 (1988) | #906 |
| 1990s | 2,747 | #698 (1997) | #764 |
| 2000s | 3,056 | #723 (2000) | #839 |
| 2010s | 1,954 | #1,098 (2016) | #1,236 |
| 2020s | 1,343 | #1,024 (2023) | #1,099 |
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.
Shea in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 7,573 of them was named Shea, which outranked 94.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,094Jenny235
- #1,094Temperance235
- #1,094Winnie235
- #1,098Shea234
- #1,098Bellamy234
- #1,098Scout234
- #1,098Shanaya234
- #1,103Agnes233
- #1,103Sarahi233
- #1,103Tamia233
Tied with 4 names at #1,098; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 18,605 of them was named Shea, which outranked 88.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,585Morris103
- #1,585Ollie103
- #1,585Teo103
- #1,599Shea102
- #1,599Alister102
- #1,599Journey102
- #1,599Shaan102
- #1,605Huck101
- #1,605Jaeden101
- #1,605Kale101
Tied with 5 names at #1,599; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.