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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 7,809 of them was named Shea, which outranked 93.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 15,411 of them was named Shea, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,499Kaidyn113
- #1,499Mavrick113
- #1,499Tamir113
- #1,503Shea112
- #1,503Alessio112
- #1,503Ayman112
- #1,503Baron112
- #1,512Abdul111
- #1,512Cornelius111
- #1,512Ewan111
Tied with 8 names at #1,503; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.