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 | ||
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| 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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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.
Where Shia is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#363 · 1 in 1,857
- Arizona#683 · 1 in 4,078
- Virginia#1,049 · 1 in 7,821
- California#1,060 · 1 in 9,469
- Illinois#1,146 · 1 in 8,984
Best ever in a state: #276 in New York, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #363 | 48 | 1 in 1,857 |
| Arizona | #683 | 8 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Virginia | #1,049 | 5 | 1 in 7,821 |
| California | #1,060 | 20 | 1 in 9,469 |
| Illinois | #1,146 | 6 | 1 in 8,984 |
| Georgia | #1,301 | 5 | 1 in 10,074 |
| Texas | #1,368 | 13 | 1 in 13,163 |
| Florida | #1,431 | 7 | 1 in 13,251 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 31,555 of them was named Shia, which outranked 82.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,069Xenia53
- #3,069Zaia53
- #3,069Ziah53
- #3,112Shia52
- #3,112Alanie52
- #3,112Ansleigh52
- #3,112Audrie52
- #3,157Ainslee51
- #3,157Aly51
- #3,157Amna51
Tied with 44 names at #3,112; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 11,435 of them was named Shia, which outranked 91.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,240Sekani154
- #1,240Skylar154
- #1,240Viaan154
- #1,245Shia153
- #1,245Aksel153
- #1,245Cedar153
- #1,245Isa153
- #1,253Aizen152
- #1,253Anson152
- #1,253Bilal152
Tied with 7 names at #1,245; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.