Shia
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · #1,358 for boys in 2025, 138 births
Given to boys 67.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,255since 1960
Shia 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,172 | 34 | #1,358 | 138 |
| 2024 | #3,013 | 54 | #1,196 | 171 |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | #1,234 | 159 |
| 2022 | #3,220 | 50 | #1,300 | 146 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #1,245 | 153 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | #1,361 | 130 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #1,805 | 85 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 | #2,017 | 72 |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 | #1,612 | 99 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | #1,942 | 71 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 | #2,003 | 70 |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 | #1,524 | 104 |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | #1,626 | 96 |
| 2009 | #2,375 | 81 | #1,453 | 115 |
| 2008 | #2,234 | 88 | #1,792 | 83 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #4,828 | 27 | #3,241 | 31 |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #3,412 | 42 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shia! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shia
- 162 spots since 2024 (#1,196 → #1,358)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#1,361 → #1,358)
- 625 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #1,358)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2024 at #1,196 (171 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,075 boys born in 2024 were named Shia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,377 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.8% of all boys named Shia (897) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,038 (1960) | #4,038 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 23 | #4,130 (1986) | #5,672 |
| 1990s | 100 | #3,704 (1999) | #5,884 |
| 2000s | 395 | #1,453 (2009) | #3,479 |
| 2010s | 835 | #1,524 (2011) | #1,816 |
| 2020s | 897 | #1,196 (2024) | #1,282 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shia in 1960
Top boys' names in 1960
More about 1960
boys
2,132,320 boys got a published name in 1960; 1 in 426,464 of them was named Shia, which outranked 12.2% of the 4,598 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 560 names at #4,038; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.