Shaina

Where Shaina comes from

Shaina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Shaina NC born
    Indian fashion designer
  3. 1987
    Peak, #319
    760 babies named Shaina — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1989
    Shaina Magdayao born
    Filipino actress
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #601.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Shaina Magdayao · Filipino actress, born 1989
  • Shaina NC · Indian fashion designer, born 1972
  • Shaina Amin · Bangladeshi model, television and film actress, born 1991
  • Shaina Sandoval · American actress, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.